Josephine Baker
June 3, 1906 (118 years old) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
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- 2022 · Le Siècle des icônes as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Madness Remixed as (archive footage)
- 2021 · Josephine Baker, la fleur au fusil as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs as Self
- 2018 · Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · Paris: The Luminous Years as
- 2006 · Legends as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Jornal Português (1938-1951) as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Joséphine Baker en couleur as Herself
- 2004 · Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time as Herself (archive footage)
- 2002 · It's Black Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · Abendschau as Self
- 1999 · Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker as Herself (archival footage)
- 1997 · Hitler's Forgotten Victims as Self (achive footage)
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 · Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker as Self (Archival Footage)
- 1975 · Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Système 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 · Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
- 1973 · Acht nach 8 as Self
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1970 · Erkennen Sie die Melodie? as Self
- 1968 · Night-Club as self
- 1965 · Meine Melodie as Self
- 1961 · Hotel Victoria as Self
- 1959 · Discorama as Self
- 1955 · Variety carousel as
- 1954 · Ten on Every Finger as Sängerin
- 1940 · Moulin Rouge as Princess Tam-Tam
- 1940 · The French Way as Zazu Clarion
- 1935 · Princess Tam Tam as Alwina
- 1934 · Zouzou as Zouzou
- 1928 · The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere as
- 1927 · Siren of the Tropics as Papitou
- 1927 · Parisian Pleasures as Herself
- 1927 · La folie du jour as
- 1927 · Die Frauen von Folies Bergères as
- 1925 · Ways to Strength and Beauty as
- 1925 · Palace Music Hall as