Josephine Baker
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Born: 1906-06-03Died: 1975-04-12
Freda Josephine McDonald
Joséphine Baker
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.
Credits
Joséphine Baker en couleur | Herself | 2005-04-23 |
Josephine Baker, la fleur au fusil | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-08 |
Moulin Rouge | Princess Tam-Tam | 1940-12-08 |
Paris: The Luminous Years | 2010-12-14 | |
The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere | 1928-03-01 |
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