Josephine Baker
Actor
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.
Filmography
Princess Tam Tam
as Alwina 1935
Siren of the Tropics
as Papitou 1927
The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere
1928
Parisian Pleasures
as Herself 1927
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
as Self (archive footage) 2018
Paris Was a Woman
as Self (archive footage) 1996
The French Way
as Zazu Clarion 1940
Ways to Strength and Beauty
1925
Variety carousel
1955
Joséphine Baker en couleur
as Herself 2005
Ten on Every Finger
as Sängerin 1954
It's Black Entertainment
as Self (archive footage) 2002
Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time
as Herself (archive footage) 2004
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
as Herself (archival footage) 1999
Moulin Rouge
as Princess Tam-Tam 1940
Paris: The Luminous Years
2010