I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

She also sang the national anthem prior to game 1 of the 1981 World Series between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29 1918 – August 17 1990) was an American actress and singer. She is buried at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester Pennsylvania.

She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello Dolly! in 1968. In 1986 Pearl Bailey won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale. Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29 1918 – August 17 1990) was an American actress and singer.