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Chez Josephine, the World's Best Restaurant!

Huffington Post (blog) - Mar 5, 2010
It's in jolly surroundings, with a zany ambiance, that effectively evokes the mix of brio and pathos characteristic of Josephine Baker, the toast of Paris ...

The history of black athletes in America transcends their exploits on the ...
ESPN - Feb 24, 2010
Josephine Baker not just a dancer, not just a singer. The role of black comedians in the push back against political and social segregation is very similar ...

Stephanie Jordan Performs with Clark Knighten Summer Smooth Jazz Sundays Series
All About Jazz - Mar 14, 2010
... Jordan... reminds me of the flashy dashy days of Josephine Baker at the Lido in Paris, the author referred to her as The classy lady of modern Jazz! ...

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The Josephine Baker Story

Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr., Craig T. Nelson
This movie portrayed a very interesting tale of the intersting life of this often unknown talent. The movie was so well done, I found my self crying about things I never expected to cry about in the movie. The movie took you into the emotional as well as the entertaining and exciting.
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Paris Was a Woman

Juliet Stevenson, Maureen All, Gillian Hanna, Margaret Robertson, Shari Benstock
Greta Schiller's award-winning documentary Paris Was A Woman (1995) explores the extraordinary women, many of whom were lesbian or bisexual, in the Left Bank's thriving cultural scene between the wars. Through Schiller's exceptional filmmaking, and Andrea Weiss's brilliant research and screenwriting, we come to know the living, complex women who so often stand only as cultural icons: novelists Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Colette, Natalie Barney, painter Marie Laurencin, photographer Gisele Freund, publishers/booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner, singer Josephine Baker, and many others.
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Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944

Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Tony Sarg
What I've seen of this DVD set has been excellent. Unfortunately, I've gone through three copies and all of them had a disc two that was unreadable in multiple machines.
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Princess Tam Tam

Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Germaine Aussey, Georges Péclet
I used to think that no movies in the world beat 1930s-style Hollywood films--especially the ones featuring big musical and dance scenes--for sheer camp. But after watching "Princess Tam Tam," I realized that the French of the 1930s were pretty good at making movies so bad that, eighty-odd years later, their very badness makes them totally fun to watch.

"Tam Tam" is formulaic, as one would expect: debonair and worldly novelist is jealous of his wife, so he fakes a romance with a wild girl of north Africa--played by Josephine Baker--to make his wife jealous in turn.
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