Josephine Baker: Erotic dancer, spy and civil rights activist
Her banana-skirt dance made Josephine Baker famous. But she was more than an entertainer: She defied the Nazis in war-time France and racism in her native US.
Legend has it that Josephine Baker received more than 1,500 marriage proposals. In 1927, the famous dancer made more money than any other entertainer in Europe. She was just 20 years old when she performed with the world-famous Revue Negre cabaret show in Paris, Madrid and Berlin.
Artists, actors and writers including Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Le Corbusier, Jean Gabin and Max Reinhardt were smitten. French writer and director Jean Cocteau raved about the beautiful idol of brown steel, irony and gold!
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