J osephine Baker and her handler, Jacques Abtey left Les Milandes by car for the train station early on November 25, 1940. Abtey was in full disguise as Baker’s secretary. She was wrapped in a ...

More candid was the biography “Josephine: The Hungry Heart ... and performing for troops along the Ma­ginot Line. Early in June of 1940, Baker, prompted by Abtey, left her beloved city ...

After becoming a stage sensation in France, the American-born Josephine Baker undertook espionage for the Allies in World War ...

AFP via Getty Images As Josephine Baker moved through international ... The mobs were such that Baker feared for her life. Ten years later, Baker’s face adorned the cover of a 1937 brochure ...

A biopic on the life of the late American singer, dancer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker is on the way, and Studiocanal just announced Maïmouna Doucouré as the film’s director and ...

Austene Van stars as Josephine Baker, an African-American woman who became the toast of Paris as a cabaret performer, dictating the story of her complex and contradictory life to a young writer ...

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