“Josephine Baker was not just a woman who became a Black ... Baker recalled of taking her "dear animals" on a trip. "Bonzo [the Great Dane] lying on the hotel room rug with a mouse cleaning ...

Before she was a legend, Josephine Baker was a little girl from Missouri ... brought home lost animals and made faces in school. An early and urgent drive, she says, was to help others ...

In this respect, Josephine Baker, who clowned her way into the heart ... s idiosyncratic method—enlisting shadows, gold lamé, animal hides, and her own golden skin—as “disappearance into ...

Described by Pablo Picasso as a black Venus, American-born cabaret star and exotic dancer Josephine Baker was one of the ... and managing a menagerie of animals, which included a pet leopard ...

The show, “Josephine Baker: Icon in Motion,” which ... “People have done me the honor of comparing me to an animal,” Baker once said slyly of comments like those from Colin or Collette.

Josephine Baker and the cover of her memoir 'Fearless and Free' ...