Josephine Baker
Birthday: 1906-06-03
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s.
Movies
Josephine Baker, la fleur au fusil
Josephine Baker, heedless of danger - The extraordinary destiny of Josephine Baker. From her native ...
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Moulin Rouge
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenan...
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Paris: The Luminous Years
A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth ...
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The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere
After a lengthy period of watching the dancers at the Folies Bergères, a fireman stops in for a drin...
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Hitler's Forgotten Victims
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tor...
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Siren of the Tropics
Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddau...
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Variety carousel
A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, th...
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Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker
The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both s...
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Zouzou
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder....
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Parisian Pleasures
Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall pu...
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The French Way
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud....
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Ways to Strength and Beauty
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of...
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Jornal Português (1938-1951)
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propag...
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French ...
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It's Black Entertainment
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Amer...
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...
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Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image foota...
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Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time
Performances of the greatest exotic dancers are collected here for the first time, from Little Egypt...
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Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into t...
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Madness Remixed
Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance e...
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Paris Was a Woman
Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in ...
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