Pearl Bailey
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 American animated buddy drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix. The 24th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a red fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper. The two friends struggle...
Starring: Mickey Rooney•Cab Calloway•Diahann Carroll
Norman... Is That You? (1976)
Norman... Is That You? is a 1976 American comedy film directed by George Schlatter and starring Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. It is based on the play Norman, Is That You? The film version changes the locale from New York City to Los Angeles and substitutes an African American family for a Jewish family in the original play.
Starring: Diahann Carroll•voices of•Veronica Lake
The Landlord (1970)
The Landlord is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted by Bill Gunn from the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a privileged and ignorant white man who selfishly becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise re...
Starring: Diahann Carroll•Pearl Bailey•Lee Grant•Sidney Poitier•Harry Belafonte
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles. It is based on the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage...
Starring: Eartha Kitt•Diahann Carroll•Nat King Cole•Ella Fitzgerald•Mahalia Jackson
St. Louis Blues (1958)
St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee. The film's soundtrack uses over ten of Handy's songs, including the title song. ...
Starring: Sammy Davis, Jr.•Diahann Carroll•Beau Bridges•Redd Foxx•Louis Gossett Jr.•Diana Sands
That Certain Feeling (1956)
That Certain Feeling is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint and George Sanders. The cast also features Pearl Bailey and a young Jerry Mathers.
Starring: Dennis Dugan•Diahann Carroll•Veronica Lake
Carmen Jones (1954)
Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an all-black cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1943 stage musical of the same name, set to the music of Georges Bizet's...
Starring: Eartha Kitt•Diahann Carroll•Billy De Wolfe
Isn't It Romantic? (1948)
Isn't It Romantic? is a 1948 American comedy musical film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe. Supporting actors included Mona Freeman, Richard Webb and Pearl Bailey. Although it takes its title from a 1932 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it is based on a novel called Gather Y...
Starring: Harry Belafonte•Eva Marie Saint•Diahann Carroll