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Josephine Baker (3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess". Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker became a citizen of France in 1937. She was fluent in both English and French.
Baker was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), or to become a world-famous entertainer. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1968 she was offered unofficial leadership in the movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Baker turned down the offer. She was also known for assisting the French Resistance during World War II, and received the French military honor, the Croix de guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.
Baker was married four times. Her first marriage was to American Pullman porter Willie Wells when she was 13 years old. The marriage was reportedly very unhappy and the couple divorced a short time later. Another short-lived marriage followed to Willie Baker in 1921; she retained Baker's last name because her career began taking off during that time, and it was the name by which she became best known. In 1925 she began an extramarital relationship with the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon.
In 1937 Baker married Frenchman Jean Lion. She became a French citizen and became a permanent expatriate. She and Lion separated before he died.
She married French composer and conductor Jo Bouillon in 1947, but their union also ended in divorce. She was later involved for a time with the artist Robert Brady, but they never married. Her adopted son Jean-Claude Baker describes his mother as a bisexual, having had relationships with men and women. In her later years, Baker converted to Roman Catholicism.
Children
During Baker's work with the Civil Rights Movement, she began adopting children, forming a family she often referred to as "The Rainbow Tribe". Josephine wanted to prove that "children of different ethnicities and religions could still be brothers." She often took the children with her cross-country, and when they were chez Château des Milandes, she arranged tours so visitors could walk the grounds and see how natural and happy the children in "The Rainbow Tribe" were. Baker raised two daughters, French-born Marianne and Moroccan-born Stellina, and ten sons, Korean-born Jeannot (or Janot), Japanese-born Akio, Colombian-born Luis, Finnish-born Jari (now Jarry), French-born Jean-Claude and Noël, Israeli-born Moïse, Algerian-born Brahim, Ivorian-born Koffi, and Venezuelan-born Mara. For some time, Baker lived with her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château des Milandes, in Dordogne, France, with her fourth husband, Jo Bouillon.
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Joséphine Baker
Birth name Freda Josephine McDonald
Nationality France
Birth 3 june 1906 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 12 april 1975 (at 68 years) at Paris (France)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Croix de guerre 1939–1945
Nationality France
Birth 3 june 1906 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 12 april 1975 (at 68 years) at Paris (France)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Croix de guerre 1939–1945
Baker was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), or to become a world-famous entertainer. Baker refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1968 she was offered unofficial leadership in the movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Baker turned down the offer. She was also known for assisting the French Resistance during World War II, and received the French military honor, the Croix de guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.
Biography
RelationshipsBaker was married four times. Her first marriage was to American Pullman porter Willie Wells when she was 13 years old. The marriage was reportedly very unhappy and the couple divorced a short time later. Another short-lived marriage followed to Willie Baker in 1921; she retained Baker's last name because her career began taking off during that time, and it was the name by which she became best known. In 1925 she began an extramarital relationship with the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon.
In 1937 Baker married Frenchman Jean Lion. She became a French citizen and became a permanent expatriate. She and Lion separated before he died.
She married French composer and conductor Jo Bouillon in 1947, but their union also ended in divorce. She was later involved for a time with the artist Robert Brady, but they never married. Her adopted son Jean-Claude Baker describes his mother as a bisexual, having had relationships with men and women. In her later years, Baker converted to Roman Catholicism.
Children
During Baker's work with the Civil Rights Movement, she began adopting children, forming a family she often referred to as "The Rainbow Tribe". Josephine wanted to prove that "children of different ethnicities and religions could still be brothers." She often took the children with her cross-country, and when they were chez Château des Milandes, she arranged tours so visitors could walk the grounds and see how natural and happy the children in "The Rainbow Tribe" were. Baker raised two daughters, French-born Marianne and Moroccan-born Stellina, and ten sons, Korean-born Jeannot (or Janot), Japanese-born Akio, Colombian-born Luis, Finnish-born Jari (now Jarry), French-born Jean-Claude and Noël, Israeli-born Moïse, Algerian-born Brahim, Ivorian-born Koffi, and Venezuelan-born Mara. For some time, Baker lived with her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château des Milandes, in Dordogne, France, with her fourth husband, Jo Bouillon.
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Zelig (1983)
, 1h19Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Susan Sontag, Caitlin O'Heaney, Patrick Horgan, Joséphine Baker
Roles Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating76%
Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the film focuses on Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen), a nondescript man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him. He is first observed at a party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who notes that Zelig related to the affluent guests in a thick, refined accent and shared their Republican sympathies, but while in the kitchen with the servants he adopted a ruder tone, and seemed to be more of a Democrat. He soon gains international fame as a "human chameleon".
Touki Bouki (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Roles Herself (voice)
Rating69%
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.
The Third Sex (1957)
, 1h44Directed by Veit Harlan, Erik Ode
Origin German
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paula Wessely, Germaine Damar, Joséphine Baker, Walter Giller, Loni Heuser, Christian Wolff
Rating55%
Fips Kluger, Franz Hempel et le trompettiste Macky sont arrêtés par la police, parce que leur groupe gêne la circulation, puis libérés. Fips raconte comment on en est arrivé là :
Variety carousel (1955)
, 1h38Genres Comedy
Themes Musical films
Actors Odoardo Spadaro, Joséphine Baker, Totò, Aldo Fabrizi
Rating57%
The French Way (1945)
Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli, Charles Barrois
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Joséphine Baker, Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Gabrielle Dorziat, Raymond Aimos, Lucien Baroux
Roles Zazu Clarion
Rating62%
La star de cabaret Zazu intervient lorsque de jeunes amoureux sont déchirés par la querelle de leurs parents.
Moulin Rouge (1940)
, 1h38Directed by André Hugon, Yves Mirande
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Lucien Baroux, René Dary, Annie France, Simone Berriau, Pierre Larquey, Maurice Escande
Roles Princess Tam-Tam
Rating57%
A la fin des années 1930, à Paris. Deux copains ont pour ambition de sortir de leur médiocrité en n'employant que d'honnêtes moyens. L'un d'eux y parvient en devenant vedette, et engage l'autre comme manager.
Princess Tam Tam (1935)
, 1h17Directed by Edmond T. Gréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Joséphine Baker, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Georges Péclet, Viviane Romance, Jean Galland
Roles Alwina
Rating62%
This script must be run from the command line
Zouzou (1934)
, 1h25Directed by Marc Allégret
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jean Gabin, Joséphine Baker, Pierre Larquey, Claire Gérard, Yvette Lebon, Illa Meery
Roles Zouzou
Rating62%
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she's dark, he's light. After they've grown, he treats her as if she were his sister, but she's in love with him. In Paris, he's a music hall electrician, she's a laundress who delivers clean underwear to the hall. She introduces him to Claire, her friend at work, and the couple fall in love. Jean conspires to get the show's star out of town and for the theater manager to see the high-spirited Zouzou perform. When Jean's accused of murder and Zouzou needs money to mount his defense, she pleads to go on stage. Her talents may save the show, but can anything save her dream of life with Jean?
Parisian Pleasures (1927)
, 1h43Directed by Joe Francis
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors André Luguet, Joséphine Baker, Hélène Hallier, Edmond Castel, Émile Audiffred
Roles Herself
Rating56%
Gabrielle Derisau (Hélène Hallier) est petite main chez Paquin. Sa vie de famille, avec un père alcoolique et une mère brimée, est sordide. Elle rêve de changer de vie et veut participer au concours du « plus petit pied de France » qui peut lui permettre de devenir meneuse de revue au Folies Bergère. Elle arrive trop tard pour le concours, mais rencontre Georges Barsac (André Luguet), un acteur au talent injustement méconnu. Celui-ci l'introduit dans le monde du théâtre.
Le Navire aveugle (1927)
Directed by Adelqui Migliar, Giuseppe Guarino
Origin France
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Adelqui Migliar, Colette Darfeuil, Marthe Mellot, Joséphine Baker
L'équipage d'un navire devient aveugle.
Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
, 1h40Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports
Actors Camilla Horn, Jenny Hasselquist, La Jana, Hertha von Walther, Johnny Weissmuller, Leni Riefenstahl
Rating58%
C’est dans les années 1920 qu’émerge en Allemagne la "Körperkultur", mouvement de masse célébrant le corps sain, la culture physique et les activités de plein air, et qui sera exacerbé jusqu’au culte une décennie plus tard dans l’idéologie nazie. Premier film documentaire long produit par l’UFA, "Force et beauté" s’inscrit parfaitement dans cette mouvance. Les séquences qu’il présente, tantôt instructives tantôt insolites (reconstitutions de combats de lutteurs de la Grèce antique, chorégraphies expressionnistes ou scènes de danse des quatre coins du monde), mettent en scène un certain nombre d’athlètes célèbres. On y retrouve notamment le nageur (et futur Tarzan) Johnny Weissmuller, ainsi qu’une toute jeune Leni Riefenstahl, qui y fait sa première apparition au cinéma en tant que danseuse.
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Touki Bouki (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Rating69%
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.