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.
