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Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she became a citizen of France in 1937. Fluent in both English and French, Baker became an international musical and political icon. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess".
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture,[which?] to integrate an American concert hall,[citation needed] and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II, and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her estate identifies vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson as her natural father. A biography written by her foster son Jean-Claude Baker stated:
Actors: Adolf Hitler (actor), Alexi Carpentieri (actor), Ibrahim Ebrima Faal (actor), Malga Kubiak (editor), Malga Kubiak (director), Malga Kubiak (writer), Mads Korsgaard (actor), Gabriella Novak (producer), Gabriella Novak (producer), Börje Lundberg (actor), Alvaro Ovalle (actor), Zbigniew Karkowski (composer), Furuki Youhei (composer), Dorota Zarowiecka (composer), Ego Trip Label (producer),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Debi Mazar (actress), Ione Skye (actress), Jennifer Tilly (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (producer), Alan Heim (actor), Tippi Hedren (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (actress), Laura Harring (actress), Phillip Bloch (actor), Phillip Bloch (producer), Marion Ramsey (actress), Rolonda Watts (actress), Stanley Sheff (writer), Stanley Sheff (producer), Stanley Sheff (actor),
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,Actors: Marília Pêra (actress), Cecil Thiré (actor), Adriano Stuart (actor), Louise Cardoso (actress), José Wilker (actor), Júlia Lemmertz (actress), Otávio Augusto (actor), Paulo Betti (actor), Raul Cortez (actor), Paulo José (actor), José de Abreu (actor), Hugo Carvana (actor), Domingos de Oliveira (actor), Dennis Carvalho (director), Eva Wilma (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,Actors: Werner Schroeter (writer), Jean-François Stévenin (actor), Paulo Branco (producer), Ulrich Felsberg (producer), Werner Schroeter (director), Rogério Samora (actor), Bulle Ogier (actress), Isabelle Huppert (actress), Dominique Frot (actress), Arielle Dombasle (actress), Isabelle Huppert (actress), Juliane Lorenz (editor), Manuel Blanc (actor), Manuel Blanc (actor), Manuel Blanc (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Michael Monks (actor), Sven-Ole Thorsen (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Rod McCary (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Ed Sullivan (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Michael Greene (actor), James DuMont (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Kevin Tighe (actor),
Plot: Biopic of the controversial muckraking journalist Walter Winchell. After spending 12 years in vaudeville, Winchell began writing a column in the New York Mirror. Part gossip, part half-truths, the reporting focused on well-known or prominent individuals and their dalliances. Winchell grew in popularity, particularly when he started his weekly Sunday night radio show. His reporting became more political in the late 1930s when he railed against Hitler. His star began to fall in the 1950's when Josephine Baker was refused service at the Stork Club and Winchell allegedly refused to do anything about it. The end came with his support of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his own rabid anti-communism. Following McCarthy's style, Winchell accused anyone who stood in his way of being a communist. Soon, he found himself facing lawsuits, a failed attempt at a television show and eventually, the cancellation of his radio show.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, based-on-book, blackmail, career, career-criminal, celebrity, columnistActors: Christine Gouze-Rénal (producer), Corinne Touzet (actress), Michel Tugot-Doris (actor), Lino Ventura (actor), Yves Vincent (actor), Guy Marchand (actor), Jean-Pierre Castaldi (actor), Niels Arestrup (actor), Roger Hanin (actor), Jean-Claude de Goros (actor), Sam Karmann (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Philippe Caroit (actor), Claude Bolling (composer), Roger Hanin (writer),
Plot: Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Michael York (actor), Daniel J. Travanti (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Rich Little (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Edward Asner (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Harry Belafonte (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), George Burns (actor), Richard Kiley (actor), Richard Kiley (actor), Jack Klugman (actor), Debbie Allen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Music, Musical,Actors: Pim de la Parra (writer), Pim de la Parra (actor), Pim de la Parra (director), Henny Alma (actress), Hetty Krapels (actress), Dorna van Rouveroy (actress), Otakar Votocek (actor), Natasa Hanusová (actress), Pierre Triboulet (actor), Elmar Schiphorst (actor), Pimm Jal de la Parra (actor), Barbara Barendrecht (actress), William Del Visco (actor), Renee van Egmond (actress), Liëla Koguchi (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Benoît Allemane (actor), Fernand Sardou (actor), Mado Maurin (actress), Roger Trapp (actor), Annette Poivre (actress), Michel Modo (actor), Jean-Jacques Steen (actor), Michel Duplaix (actor), Michel Muller (actor), Guy Grosso (actor), André Badin (actor), Jean-Christophe Averty (director), Jacques Ferrière (actor), Bernard Cara (actor), Fransined (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Fritiof Billquist (actor), Hartwig Fock (actor), Helge Hagerman (actor), Stig Järrel (actor), Nils Lundell (actor), Carl-Gunnar Wingård (actor), Margit Andelius (actress), Astrid Bodin (actress), Isa Quensel (actress), Aino Taube (actress), Erik Baumann (composer), Schamyl Bauman (director), Alva Lundin (miscellaneous crew), Emil A. Lingheim (editor), Nils Wahlbom (actor),
Genres: Comedy,I was watching TV late last night
And a scene transported me
Long gone figures came back to life
In a documentary
Though I saw them dance for joy
I was sad I missed that show
If I had a time machine
I know just where I'd go
CHORUS
I was born too late to see Josephine Baker
Dancing in a Paris cabaret
Born too late to see Josephine Baker
She must have been great in her heyday
Now some they stand out from a crowd
Even at an early age
I suppose that her call was loud
'Cause she just lit up the stage
You can put on all that gloss
And still not have to feel
What's inside will come across
And only real is real
CHORUS
I'm sometimes trapped by the close confines
Of the age I'm born into
Though there were others worse than mine
Well I miss what I can't do
Join the feast of Ancient Greece
See Alexander's Library
Maybe clink a champagne toast
With a jazz age dancing queen
CHORUS
In black and white film you can't mistake her
She must have been great in her heyday