Famous for her dancing, comedy and costumes, there was never a risk of boredom when Josephine Baker took the stage. An international Jazz Age star and a World War II spy to boot?It sounds like a story ...
In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw away from the red windmill tower of the landmark Moulin Rouge, sits a piece of Josephine Baker’s legacy that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet ...
I had always associated Josephine Baker with Isadora Duncan. Both were US-born dancers who left their country of birth for the charms of Paris. They were also both celebrated for their stage attire – ...
The amazing story of the first Black superstar. Baker, born into poverty in Missouri in 1906, moved to France where she became a dancer hailed as the Queen of Paris, joined the French Resistance, and ...