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"Hello, Dolly!" Pearl Bailey Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an

American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville she made her

Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the

all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she

won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in

the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.Her

rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952. She

received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and

the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988.