Pearl Bailey

On stage 7 productions, 55 years

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Worked with more than once11 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Film cast (1959) : Cab Calloway (replacing the film’s Sammy Davis Jr. for contractual reasons), Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, André Previn (conductor). Columbia OS 2016.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• FILM (Samuel Goldwyn film released by Columbia 1959) : Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll. Screenplay by N. Richard Nash. Directed by Otto Preminger. Choreography by Hermes Pan. Deleted?: “My Man’s Gone Now” (included on the soundtrack but not in the film copy available to…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Act Two : “Don’t Talk” (reprise) (John Conte); “I’ll Never Learn” (Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary); “There Must Be Something Better Than Love” (Pearl Bailey); “She’s Exciting” (Georges Guetary); “Mister Washington! Uncle George” (Boys and Girls); “A Cow and a Plough and a Frau” (reprise) (Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Robert Garland in the Journal-American said the musical should be retitled Connecticut in honor of Pearl Bailey, although Howard Barnes in the New York Herald-Tribune noted that Connecticut (a new character invented for the musical) and her songs had “little or no relation to” the plot. Overall, Barnes found the new musical “ponderous” an…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• With Arms and the Girl , Pearl Bailey continued her string of bravura performances in Broadway failures. St. Louis Woman (1946), Bless You All (1950), and House of Flowers (1954) all had short runs, and her only Broadway success was her appearance in the title role of the all-black company of Hello, Dolly! (1964). After a pre-Broadway try…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Despite the musical’s short Broadway run, Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary, and Pearl Bailey left the production before the musical closed and were respectively succeeded by Mary O’Fallon, John Tyers, and Dolores Martin.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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