including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in “Lady Sings the Blues” and being mentored by the first Black woman to ever sign a movie contract. Curry died last ...

Millions of Southern Californians were on edge as winds began picking up during a final round of dangerous fire weather forecast for the region where two massive blazes have killed at least 25 and ...

She settled in Los Angeles, where she never became a star but did rub shoulders with some of the elites of old Hollywood, including backing up singer Pearl Bailey ... her home in Altadena as ...

Curry died last week at her home in Altadena as the Eaton Fire raged ... and sang and danced backing up Pearl Bailey in venues across the U.S. In later life Curry became a nurse, working in ...