“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 ...

AGENT JOSEPHINE: American Beauty ... Lewis’s assertion — that for Baker, the unconditional love of animals was probably easier than relationships with humans — is both simplistic and ...

There was no shortage of epithets for Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born polymath who took Paris by storm when she arrived there in 1925, aged 19, to headline “La Revue Nègre,” a show of all ...

In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the stage and screen performer thought it was a hilarious prospect, until she ...