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TBT: Pearl Bailey In Her Tony-Winning Turn as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!

Last updated March 29th, 2018 by BroadwayBox Staff
TBT: Pearl Bailey In Her Tony-Winning Turn as Dolly Levi in…

Tony and Emmy Award winner Pearl Bailey would turn 100 today. She was born March 29, 1918. In 1968, Pearl received a Tony Award for starring as Dolly Levi in the all-black production Hello, Dolly!

. For her centennial birthday, BroadwayBox looks back at Pearl as the meddling matchmaker in these archived clips.

“Before The Parade Passes By” on Ed Sullivan


“Put On Your Sunday Clothes” & “So Long, Dearie” at the Tony Awards


“Hello, Dolly!” on The Muppet Show


See Broadway's current Dolly, Bernadette Peters, in her epic Hello, Dolly! star turn at Broadway's Shubert Theatre.

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