Actor
Josephine Baker
Actor
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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Filmography
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1925
Palace Music Hall
Role not on record
1925
Ways to Strength and Beauty
Role not on record
1927
La folie du jour
Role not on record
1927
Parisian Pleasures
Herself
1927
Papitou
1927
The Women of the Folies Bergères
Role not on record
1928
The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere
Role not on record
1934
Zouzou
Zouzou
1935
Princess Tam Tam
Alwina
1940
Moulin Rouge
Princess Tam-Tam
1940
The French Way
Zazu Clarion
1954
Ten on Every Finger
Sängerin
1955
Variety carousel
Role not on record
1965
Show - Charme - Chansons
Self
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1987
Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker
Self (Archival Footage)
1996
Paris Was a Woman
Self (archive footage)
1997
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Self (achive footage)
1999
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
Herself (archival footage)
2001
Le Petite Tonkinoise
Music
2002
Self (archive footage)
2004
Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time
Herself (archive footage)
2005
Joséphine Baker en couleur
Herself
2010
Paris: The Luminous Years
Role not on record
2015
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Self (archive footage)
2016
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Self (archive footage)
2018
Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Self (archive footage)
2020
Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs
Self
2021
Josephine Baker, la fleur au fusil
Self (archive footage)
2021
Madness Remixed
(archive footage)
2023
Donyale Luna: Supermodel
archive footage
2025
Bardot
archive footage
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Miss Josephine Baker
Role not on record
Television
1959
Discorama
Self
1961
Hotel Victoria
Self
1965
Meine Melodie
Self
1968
Night-Club
Self
1969
Erkennen Sie die Melodie?
Self
1972
1972
Midi trente
Self
1973
Acht nach 8
Self
1974
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest
1975
Système 2
Self (archive footage)
1993
Self (archive footage)
2001
Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts
Self (archive Footage)
2006
Legends
Self (archive footage)
2019
France between the two wars
Elle-même
2022
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage)
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