Pearl Bailey is virtually forgotten today, but in her prime in the 1950s and '60s, she was a comedian, a stage and movie actress, a charismatic nightclub performer and a formidable pop and gospel singer. She married drummer Louis Bellson in London in 1952, and they were probably the most highly visible integrated couple in the entertainment industry at …
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