Josephine Baker Filmography

Born:: June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, MO
Occupation:: Actor, Featured Music
Biography:: Seductive, talented, and notorious, Josephine Baker rose from being a St. Louis street performer to become the toast of Paris for decades. The daughter of musician Eddie Carson and laundress Carrie McDonald, Baker began performing on the St. Louis streets as a child and then became a chorine in...Read More

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Va Mourire

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Marc Duret, Jules Nassah, Roland Marchisio, Florence Madec

Synopsis: The four days in the life of three aimless, but handsome men in the South of France are chronicled in this French buddy film. It is the end of the tourist season and Marcel, Raoul, and Yoyo are simply hanging around. As usual, their days are spent drinking pastis, sunning themselves, robbing Read More

1995
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Dennis Farina, Wings Hauser, Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: Popular African-American comedian Jo Jo Dancer is severely burned while free-basing cocaine. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. While hovering between life and death, Dancer flashes back to his childhood, when he grew up in a brothel. Read More

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Moulin Rouge

Actors: Lucien Baroux, René Dary, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: No relation to the same-named 1934 Maurice Chevalier musical nor the 1954 Toulouse Lautrec biopic, the French Moulin Rouge began life as a showcase for the dazzling talents of African American entertainer Josephine Baker. Alas, Baker's provocative dance routines-not to mention the hints of Read More

1944
Fausse Alerte

Actors: Micheline Presle, Josephine Baker, Georges Marchal, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Tissier

Synopsis: The French Way (Fausse Alert) stars American expatriate musical star Josephine Baker as a Parisian cabaret singer. The plot is your standard "star-crossed lovers" melange, distinguished by the conspicuous lack of clothing on the female characters. The coy ingenue is played by 18-year-old Micheline Presle Read More

1940
Princess Tam Tam

Actors: Josephine Baker, Germaine Aussey, Albert Prejean, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: Princesse Tam-Tam is a must-see for fans of legendary African-American entertainer Josephine Baker. Shunned by lily-white Hollywood, Baker made a name for herself in France as a cabaret entertainer, frequently comporting in the nude--all the while letting the audience know she didn't take herself Read More

1935
Zou Zou

Actors: Josephine Baker, Yvette Lebon, Illa Meery, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Zou Zou is one of a handful of French musical films made by the flamboyant African-American entertainer Josephine Baker. The star plays a Creole laundress who becomes an overnight stage success when she subs for a tempestuous diva. She goes on to experience the requisite professional highs and Read More

1934
La Sirene Des Tropiques

Actors: Josephine Baker, Pierre Batcheff, Georges Melchior

Synopsis: The black-and-white silent film Siren of the Tropics features the film debut of international star Josephine Baker. Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is credited as the assistant director, but he allegedy quit the production before it was finished. Set in the West Indies but filmed in France, a man Read More

1928
La Revue Des Revues

Actors: Josephine Baker, André Luguet

1927