Remembering Josephine Baker on her birthday 🎂
📷 Studio Harcourt, 1948
She was recruited by the Deuxième Bureau, French military intelligence, in 1939, & worked for the Resistance throughout the war.
📷 Studio Harcourt, 1948
She was recruited by the Deuxième Bureau, French military intelligence, in 1939, & worked for the Resistance throughout the war.
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Monte Carlo, 1970
Paris, 1926
Her cheetah was named Chiquita, and wore a diamond collar.
Joséphine Baker à l'Olympia, 1956
"Baker inspired audiences not so much in single performances as through her magical ability to communicate her ideas & transform herself with the creation of each image."
- Bennetta Jules-Rosette