Cast: Pearl Bailey

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pearl Bailey. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Porgy and Bess

1959 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Plot In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break...

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

Carmen Jones

1954 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Plot On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

6.5

663 votes

6.5

663 votes

The Landlord

1970 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Beau Bridges · Lee Grant · Diana Sands · Pearl Bailey

Plot At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn....

6.1

77 votes

6.1

77 votes

All the Fine Young Cannibals

1960 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Robert Wagner · Natalie Wood · Susan Kohner · George Hamilton

Plot Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama about two young couples linked by the out-of-wedlock baby...

5.8

139 votes

5.8

139 votes

That Certain Feeling

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama

Cast Bob Hope · Eva Marie Saint · George Sanders · Pearl Bailey

Plot When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love...

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Donny and Marie (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Art Fisher · Perry Rosemond · Walter C. Miller

Cast Donny Osmond · Marie Osmond · Kris Kristofferson · Robert Young

Plot TV Series (1975–1979). 4 Seasons. A variety show, featuring the brother-sister singing duo of Donny and Marie Osmond. The first season also featured all of the Osmond families, but Donny...

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St. Louis Blues

1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast Nat 'King' Cole · Eartha Kitt · Cab Calloway · Ella Fitzgerald

Plot Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't...

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The Member of the Wedding (TV)

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Pearl Bailey · Dana Hill · Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Benjamin Bernouy

Plot A 1982 made-for-television remake of the 1952 Fred Zinnemann film. Shown as a feature on "NBC Live Theater."

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Isn't It Romantic?

1948 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Veronica Lake · Mona Freeman · Mary Hatcher · Billy De Wolfe

Plot In rural 18th-century Indiana, the three daughters of a Civil War veteran are courted by three young men--one a sophisticated city slicker who sells phony oil stock, the second a...

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Not rated