Pearl Bailey--1990 TV Interview

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  • @cmcb09
    @cmcb09 6 років тому +131

    Hard to believe she was gone later that year, so vibrant and full of life here.

    • @Riogi
      @Riogi 6 років тому +17

      I'm thinking the same thing. She is so full of life here. She was an amazing woman!

    • @RamardoTHunt
      @RamardoTHunt 6 років тому +8

      @Isaiah King Heart Attack

    • @jwalker7277
      @jwalker7277 4 роки тому +11

      @Isaiah King after a knee surgery she had blood clots and yes cardiac arrest ❤️

    • @Blackisbeautifull96
      @Blackisbeautifull96 4 роки тому +3

      Jawara k. Adams Trumpet same shit that happened to Dorothy Dandridge

    • @billobrien5118
      @billobrien5118 Рік тому +1

      How many months after this interview?

  • @LovelyLady.
    @LovelyLady. 2 роки тому +22

    Pearlie Mae Bailey left so many pearls of wisdom that are still relevant in 2022 and beyond. God rest her soul!

  • @JesseHanner
    @JesseHanner 4 роки тому +38

    Over 40 years ago I had the pleasure to sit down and talk with Miss Bailey after a dinner speech she gave to us at the Las Vegas Hilton. My girlfriend's father was the guest of honor and I had the opportunity to speak with her after her speech. We sat and talked for over 30 minutes, everyone else left the room. We spoke of the old family core values, just as she speaks in her interview here. I was a young man of 26 and she respected my youth and values taught by my parents of the Great Depression, Appalachian Generation (KY hollers). She mailed an autographed picture and a copy of her book "Hurry up America and Spit". Very lovely woman, kind and considerate. Later that week I did spend time have another dinner with Dick/Pat Van Patten and Lyle , wife, but nothing compared to the Pearl Bailey conversation.

  • @brahmabkitty03
    @brahmabkitty03 4 роки тому +26

    Pearl Bailey has been one of my favorite people since Carmen Jones. I'm going back to school in my mid 30's. Her words have made me feel better.

  • @nreynolds75243
    @nreynolds75243 3 роки тому +15

    No communication, no authority, no obedience, no compromise, no family ....so true, even more so now in 2021. "You must stand like an Oak and bend like a Willow".....such wise words. I miss the older generation of people from way back.

  • @DrewWasMe
    @DrewWasMe 4 роки тому +33

    Pearlie Mae was an ambassador for all of human kind. The idea that she is forgotten today is a loss for all of us. Listen to her words and the love and hope in them and you will see the truth.

  • @thetreasurehouse1742
    @thetreasurehouse1742 6 років тому +49

    This is a BEAUTIFUL tribute on what would have been Pearl's 100th birthday, 3/29/2018.

  • @whorrorstories4485
    @whorrorstories4485 4 роки тому +43

    Man Pearl’s skin was made of black diamond I swear it STILL looks amazing! She looks amazing

  • @62chucky
    @62chucky 6 років тому +35

    WONDERFUL WISDOM...loved her!!! She said, Get broke or Get sick...see who your real friends are....so true! Love and respect for Miss Pearl Bailey!

  • @deej1015
    @deej1015 Місяць тому +1

    May Mrs. Bailey continue to rest in peace 🤍🙏🏿 I love that she was always learning and reinventing herself. She was beaufiul. Continued prayers to her family

  • @alicksamuels592
    @alicksamuels592 6 років тому +29

    Loved Miss Bailey! When I was 14 years old my grandfather took the family to see Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly. That was in May 1968. That was my first Bway show and the beginning of a life long passion.

    • @mishlake1
      @mishlake1 6 років тому +4

      Amazing! A friend of my mother's, more like an older aunt to her really, was in the chorus of that very show. Last year, I helped her sort through her things, and I found a signed picture of Ms. Pearl Bailey from the show--and she let me have it. It's now one of my most prized possessions! Wish I coulda been there in '68 to see!

    • @zyxw2024
      @zyxw2024 3 роки тому +1

      @@mishlake1 In 1975 Pearl Bailey was passing out autographed photos of herself on the 5th. floor at Saks Fifth Avenue. I was staff & didn't think of asking her for one. I can still see her & hear her from that time. Such personality, ETC.

  • @craigdavis4265
    @craigdavis4265 5 років тому +66

    We need a Miss Pearl Bailey movie.She is just really awesome my friend.Miss Queen Latifah would be the right person to play her man

    • @Zak6959
      @Zak6959 4 роки тому +1

      God bless her.

    • @carolvogelman5261
      @carolvogelman5261 4 роки тому +4

      I spent Saturday with Pearl's autobiography and there is a movie in there you would need a young Pearl but Queen Latina is her mature self! DO IT!

    • @carolvogelman5261
      @carolvogelman5261 4 роки тому +1

      I adore her!

    • @carolvogelman5261
      @carolvogelman5261 4 роки тому +1

      She had a baby marriage, an abusive marriage and then an extremely fine marriage to drummer Louis Nelson! And that was well before 1968!

    • @carolvogelman5261
      @carolvogelman5261 4 роки тому +2

      Say send Latifah a copy of The Raw Pearl

  • @troubledwaters
    @troubledwaters 5 років тому +147

    I’m not trying to hear nobody else portraying Ms. Bailey in a biopic but Queen Latifah. Their resemblance and demeanor are uncanny.

  • @junegiovanni6475
    @junegiovanni6475 6 років тому +57

    What a extraordinary woman, she is a legendary icon. It makes me sad she died later that year on August 17, 1990 of Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease at age 72. She was so amazing and full of wisdom. RIP Miss Pearl Mae Bailey🌹🌟👠👡💐 (1918-1990)💐🌹

    • @mayapace6914
      @mayapace6914 3 роки тому +2

      She died on my Birthday, I was 7 years old.

    • @sandraandrews9907
      @sandraandrews9907 10 місяців тому

      ​@@mayapace6914So sorry. 😟😢

  • @springstud
    @springstud 4 роки тому +8

    i can listen to her all day. she put smile on face i miss her

  • @meboneme1
    @meboneme1 3 роки тому +10

    I LOOOVVVEEEE HER VOICE!!

  • @goddessingold1410
    @goddessingold1410 2 роки тому +3

    I love the internet for this reason!! What a lovely treat the incomparable Pearl Bailey!!!❤️🤗❤️

  • @darreylhenderson8979
    @darreylhenderson8979 6 років тому +48

    She will always be Big Mama from The Fox and the Hound

    • @asiad7175
      @asiad7175 5 років тому +5

      Darreyl Henderson omg I didn’t know that ❤️ I knew I knew her voice!

    • @lesley1204
      @lesley1204 3 роки тому +4

      Her voice is like a warm hug 🥰

  • @nonenoneonenonenone
    @nonenoneonenonenone 3 роки тому +7

    A credit to the human race. Unlike so many today.

  • @jjholl00
    @jjholl00 6 років тому +10

    I just loved this interview... RIP Ms. Bailey. She would have been 100 years old.

  • @darryayoung4467
    @darryayoung4467 6 років тому +30

    “It ain’t how good you are but how long you last “

  • @inspiredcanvas
    @inspiredcanvas Рік тому +2

    I love her and sadden that she died not too long after this interview. Forever love for Pearl Bailey.

  • @reidwhitton6248
    @reidwhitton6248 4 роки тому +5

    What a sweetheart! She has so much love, humor, and personality!

  • @danielmcnulty50
    @danielmcnulty50 3 роки тому +6

    she was always a barrel of fun and very talented.

  • @msbcheet6041
    @msbcheet6041 6 років тому +13

    I loved her when I was a kid. Listening to this interview, I now know WHY I loved Ms. Bailey--I caught her beauty and her inner spirit. Both spoke volumes to me--even as a little child.

  • @bethvirginiaphillips4583
    @bethvirginiaphillips4583 4 роки тому +8

    Pearl was an upbeat very great actress, singer and comedienne that excluded love for everyone. A great little book on her life is The Raw Pearl. She had many obstacles in her life but managed to overcome them and remain positive throughout her life. Greatly missed.

  • @leemclaury6251
    @leemclaury6251 6 років тому +19

    I saw her preform in the late 70s in Detroit in a 1 woman show. It was great .

  • @AudreyHeadley
    @AudreyHeadley 3 роки тому +7

    I enjoy this interview so much RIP Ma Pearl Bailey ❤️❤️❤️

  • @DINOLOVER6717
    @DINOLOVER6717 5 років тому +5

    I hold fast that “Too Marvelous For Words” is written about Pearl Bailey....she was a grand lady ❤️❤️❤️

  • @NathanThePrezPretlow
    @NathanThePrezPretlow 3 роки тому +4

    So much life and energy Pearl Bailey had before she passes later that same year of arteriosclerosis Harding of the arteries.RIP Pearly May.

  • @mistychenoweth9716
    @mistychenoweth9716 3 роки тому +4

    She was one of the inspirations for me to go to college when I did. Very inspirational.

  • @annodomoni8960
    @annodomoni8960 3 роки тому +5

    We lose our legends so quickly. smh rip queen

  • @RickElizz
    @RickElizz 4 роки тому +10

    I see and hear greatness here.

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe 2 роки тому

      Javi, its crazy to believe she passed 11 months after this. She is so lovely. Qué Triste !

  • @darryayoung4467
    @darryayoung4467 6 років тому +28

    “You got to be good to last”

  • @humblewarrior7593
    @humblewarrior7593 3 роки тому +5

    She had such a beautiful spirit!

  • @THREESISTERS15
    @THREESISTERS15 10 місяців тому +1

    Boy, could this world do with a few more Pearl Bailey's around . GOD Bless

  • @johnnyace1954
    @johnnyace1954 10 місяців тому +2

    Great interview. She is great!

  • @ElijahLukeMusic
    @ElijahLukeMusic 5 років тому +12

    I loved her in Fox in the Hound

    • @mrjamila88
      @mrjamila88 3 роки тому +2

      Omg yah I just realized she was the voice in that movie. Oh my goodness. Such beautiful lady ❤️

  • @teslagirl1
    @teslagirl1 2 роки тому +2

    Pearl Bailey is proof that legends never die. Her spirit lives on...Death always knew he couldn't really stop her.

  • @rachelwalton3772
    @rachelwalton3772 4 роки тому +11

    So sad. This interview was recorded on July 4, 1990 and she died on August 17, 1990.

    • @musicartlover963
      @musicartlover963 3 роки тому +3

      Wow so sad

    • @ballershanelle
      @ballershanelle 2 роки тому +3

      So sad, he lost his love . She was so optimistic. I wonder was her knee operation had anything to do with it.. was she doing it and passed from complications??? I am so mad at that... She needed to go on... Sad

  • @migrain45
    @migrain45 4 роки тому +4

    What a Wonderful interview, what a Wonderful Woman/ Lady Pearl Bailey was, very smart , wise and entertaining.:-)

  • @meboneme1
    @meboneme1 6 років тому +13

    CLASSIC!!!

  • @ashleyroulac
    @ashleyroulac 6 років тому +9

    thank you for this video

  • @MAYDAYES
    @MAYDAYES 4 роки тому +8

    I would like to see Queen Latifah play her life. She looks just like her.

  • @arrowshoe
    @arrowshoe 6 років тому +16

    An amazing talent and lady!!

  • @elizabethperry3458
    @elizabethperry3458 5 років тому +14

    It is so apparent that Dick Cavitt really admired Ms. Bailey so much.
    She was just priceless!!

  • @StrutTIGER1870
    @StrutTIGER1870 2 роки тому +2

    We all can learn from her! I can see her heart! ❤

  • @Ursaminor31
    @Ursaminor31 3 роки тому +4

    Such a delightful human

  • @DINOLOVER6717
    @DINOLOVER6717 5 років тому +2

    I miss this. And I was born this year. But I do. Dick Cavett ALWAYS struck me as the most respectful interviewer of this century. He had a way of speaking with people that made them open up about the most personal of things. Even Edward Murrow on Person2Person didn’t have that kind of connection....

  • @nintendy
    @nintendy 4 роки тому +2

    I just watched her on the Legendary Nat King Cole Show - and she was SO funny! God Bless her!

  • @LeeAndrewisWright
    @LeeAndrewisWright 4 роки тому +3

    I thoroughly enjoyed this!

  • @carolscott4880
    @carolscott4880 6 років тому +6

    Preach Ms. Bailey. Wow she had so much wisdom I've always liked her read her Autobio and cook book. She w as s full of wisdom and it is true of children today not having breakfast or dinner at the table with their parent it's other distractions, cell phine, video games. God Bless Ms Bailey and her husband Mr Louis Bellson they made a great couple it was beyond black and white it was mutual understanding, musically, professional and just love.

  • @dennismclaurin1487
    @dennismclaurin1487 8 місяців тому +1

    Queen Latifah would do Pearl Bailey justice portraying her on the big screen

  • @vikkishyah8724
    @vikkishyah8724 2 роки тому +2

    Wisdom poured from her like clear water from a spring! Her and Della Reese had a way of reaching you.

  • @ZapataE
    @ZapataE 3 роки тому +5

    Class Act 💯🙏🏽

  • @allancuseo7431
    @allancuseo7431 3 роки тому +2

    loved loved loved her

  • @darreylhenderson702
    @darreylhenderson702 3 роки тому +6

    The voice of Big Mama from Disney's 'Fox and the Hound'

  • @danielrobinson9270
    @danielrobinson9270 4 роки тому +7

    Wow. Pearl Bailey talking about treating people nicely. Well...Diahann Carroll said she wasn't so nice to her. And...Maya Angelou's son said Pearl Bailey wasn't so nice to his mom. Interestingly

    • @uniquehill8400
      @uniquehill8400 3 роки тому +7

      I almost forgot!
      Seems like she changed after...
      So that’s good. We all get in our own way sometimes...ijs 😉

    • @danielrobinson9270
      @danielrobinson9270 3 роки тому +6

      @@uniquehill8400 True. I agree 👍

    • @victoriankambe3070
      @victoriankambe3070 2 роки тому +3

      It takes some work. Mostly people who need to work incarnate here.

  • @sharonsimmons7824
    @sharonsimmons7824 2 роки тому +3

    Love Pearl Bailey amazing woman American treasure.💜inspertional.For all people. Will for ever be miss .Much love always. You earn heavenly wings .Rest in Jesus.

  • @familylifetoo9541
    @familylifetoo9541 2 роки тому +1

    I'm just getting introduced to this Sweet Soul

  • @britishlad5648
    @britishlad5648 3 роки тому +6

    Okay movie Producers get on it; Queen Latifah as Pearl Bailey!!!

  • @ald668
    @ald668 5 років тому +7

    A GREAT AND FUN LADY!

  • @1dannaa
    @1dannaa 2 роки тому +4

    someone please create a broadway show about this GREAT woman.pearl rest in peace.

  • @peterlewis6324
    @peterlewis6324 4 роки тому +2

    Pearl bailey the queen of SASS and fabulous.

  • @bugleboy4527
    @bugleboy4527 3 роки тому +2

    Love Pearl, what a great person

  • @GeoStrum3
    @GeoStrum3 4 роки тому +6

    Strange there hasn’t been a musical or movie about her life story!

    • @Selfullme
      @Selfullme 3 роки тому

      Because there's no drama....

  • @leemclaury6251
    @leemclaury6251 6 років тому +11

    An American treasure

  • @dennismoss995
    @dennismoss995 Рік тому +1

    Her house is a monument in Philadelphia she was a head of her time

  • @Wuzwrongwitdatdolla
    @Wuzwrongwitdatdolla 4 роки тому +3

    I always thought it was cool that they named the school in American Dad after her.

  • @leonardwilsonsr8198
    @leonardwilsonsr8198 6 років тому +5

    GOD she was wonderful

  • @Potentialaj
    @Potentialaj 4 роки тому +2

    PBS Maya Angelou documentary bought me here

  • @kimkemeys9563
    @kimkemeys9563 2 роки тому +1

    Never to old to learn.

  • @UncleDuTheWatchman
    @UncleDuTheWatchman Рік тому +1

    That marriage advice she gave is a GEM! It would be even easier to apply today in this Information Age. You wouldn't even need to take a class in a building! You could both take a separate class online and share that experience with each other every night just to have something to talk about! That was rich what she said! I'll be using that one if I ever decide to stop being single. 😉

  • @ennisel
    @ennisel 3 роки тому +3

    remarkable lady

  • @patriciacruz6485
    @patriciacruz6485 4 роки тому +3

    Wonderful wise woman.

  • @dedebrown1028
    @dedebrown1028 10 місяців тому +1

    Queen Latifah would be wonderful playing Ms. Bailey.

  • @kseke25
    @kseke25 4 роки тому +1

    She seems like she was a kind woman.

  • @TheMaxou92
    @TheMaxou92 6 років тому +7

    That's 1989 cause Whitney Tippett died in 1988 and she says "she passed last November", VERY good interview though :)

    • @TheMaxou92
      @TheMaxou92 6 років тому

      Unless Miss Bailey got mixed up with the date of Tippett's death of course

  • @shiaennals
    @shiaennals 5 років тому +9

    is this queen latifahs grandma or what??

  • @craigdavis4265
    @craigdavis4265 5 років тому +5

    3:40,4:20,& 4:50 Cold Hard Facts!!!

  • @kosbee96
    @kosbee96 3 роки тому +2

    She looked good!!!!!-

  • @JoshP037
    @JoshP037 5 років тому +3

    I remember calling it the "cloak room." hahaha

  • @aquillalittle77
    @aquillalittle77 2 роки тому +1

    Love her.

  • @My2CentsYall
    @My2CentsYall 3 роки тому

    I was just graduating high school.

  • @willcratch7815
    @willcratch7815 2 роки тому +1

    Miss Pearl....beautiful lady and brutally real soul. We need more Valkyries her.

  • @kaceyreynolds3985
    @kaceyreynolds3985 3 роки тому

    Anyone here after hearing RuPaul say she would play her in Snatch Game?

  • @brahmabkitty03
    @brahmabkitty03 4 роки тому +4

    She called Hollywood Sodam and Gomorrah!!! Whew chile!!

  • @dustinmahan1495
    @dustinmahan1495 Рік тому +1

    Big Mama

  • @yoni5570
    @yoni5570 3 роки тому +1

    Rupaul said she would do Pearl for Snatch Game. Would be great.

  • @imgellin100
    @imgellin100 5 років тому +6

    Pearl bailey in the past. Queen latifah in the future

  • @luckystarship2275
    @luckystarship2275 3 роки тому +2

    Pearl died the year this was recorded.

    • @Vwjl1207
      @Vwjl1207 2 роки тому +2

      A little over a month after this interview she passed away.

  • @inah4923
    @inah4923 6 років тому +8

    She had a good career , she had an interesting life but was VERY competitive and not very liked by her peers :(

    • @robert44861
      @robert44861 6 років тому +2

      PEARL BAILEY was a talented singer and actress but she talked too much on her ABC show "THE PEARL BAILEY SHOW" and got it cancelled ... she needed to be controlled and was not near the end. Her solo performance on "THE BOSTON POPS" was perfect ... no talking.

    • @danielrobinson9270
      @danielrobinson9270 6 років тому +4

      inah Wow. I never knew she wasn't liked by her peers.

    • @googleuser7454
      @googleuser7454 4 роки тому +2

      I heard similar from Maya Angelou I believe. That's a shame.

    • @divingduck1970
      @divingduck1970 4 роки тому +3

      I knew her when I was a kid, long story. She sent me books, including a children's story called "Dewey's Tale" and her autobiographical stuff, but NOT "Raw Pearl" or the cookbook she wrote. She really was an egomaniac, but a character, and I didn't understand what she was going on about at the time, the politics, religion etc. What I know now is that she's not given tribute whenever black entertainment history is being chronicled because she was a staunch Republican, so she gets buried.

    • @berrygirlfinn
      @berrygirlfinn 4 роки тому +3

      @@divingduck1970 I'm sure being married interracialy angered those same folks. I think she is a hero, and wish I found out about her while she was alive. I find her most Fascinating and modern

  • @bryanedney2723
    @bryanedney2723 4 роки тому +3

    She was a Philly native!

    • @Ranger2025
      @Ranger2025 3 роки тому +2

      No! She was born in Newport News Va. ( Sebrill/Courtland) Pearl Bailey is my Mother's Cousin. I never met Pearl Bailey Herself but I did meet Her Sister Virgie @ Davis Family Reunion in Virginia when I was about 9 or 10. Virgie was very close with my Mother's Sisters in Virginia.

    • @jackdee9365
      @jackdee9365 3 роки тому +1

      Nope Native of Newport News the same place as Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald

  • @raylotfi
    @raylotfi Рік тому

    Can you clear why Angles are Female for men to please? what about woman, who would please them in other word.

  • @MSimmonsAZ
    @MSimmonsAZ Рік тому

    looks like an snl skit

  • @65wiseman
    @65wiseman 6 років тому +7

    Despite her jovial appearance here - she was supposed to be an absolute monster and sheer terror to work with.

    • @ABCDuwachui
      @ABCDuwachui 5 років тому +2

      Now where did you hear that?

    • @samknight5553
      @samknight5553 5 років тому +1

      Not true!!! No not true😣

    • @dwightcannon9884
      @dwightcannon9884 5 років тому +7

      Looking around he’s telling the truth. She and my grandma were cousins and she and my grandma didn’t always get along..

    • @brahmabkitty03
      @brahmabkitty03 4 роки тому +1

      I think she probably just demanded respect. Think about the times she had to work in and was in an interracial marriage

    • @maryamfoyeofhbc
      @maryamfoyeofhbc 4 роки тому +6

      Of course anytime a Black woman demands you treat her like a whole person... She is considered difficult.

  • @brahmabkitty03
    @brahmabkitty03 4 роки тому +1

    Angela Bassett should definitely play Pearl Bailey

    • @luvjones9877
      @luvjones9877 4 роки тому +7

      Queen Latifah should

    • @kseke25
      @kseke25 4 роки тому

      @Alain Quartermaine 😂

  • @mr.bfarrar
    @mr.bfarrar 3 роки тому

    Here because of RuPaul.