Kalau kamu lagi ngulik film/serial Dokumenter, Komedi, nama Josephine Baker kemungkinan bakal sering muncul. Di sini ada ringkasan karier, karya paling dikenal, dan filmografi pilihan.
Kalau bio resminya minim, tenang: highlight dan filmografi pilihan di bawah biasanya lebih membantu buat cari ‘mulai dari mana’.
Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume,…
consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s.