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Josephine Baker

Acting

3 movies available on YTS

Actor info

  • Name :

    Josephine Baker

  • Born :

    June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (68 years at death)

  • Died :

    April 12, 1975

  • Known for :

    Acting

  • Gender :

    Female

  • Film career :

    31 films (1925–2025)

  • Also known as :

    Freda Josephine McDonald, Joséphine Baker

  • Links :

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.

Notable films

  • Bardot (2025) as archive footage
  • The French Way (1940) as Zazu Clarion
  • Paris Was a Woman (1996) as Self (archive footage)
  • It's Black Entertainment (2002) as Self (archive footage)
  • Hitler's Forgotten Victims (1997) as Self (achive footage)

3 YIFY Movies starring Josephine Baker