What is Zouzou / Princess Tam-Tam about?

Name: Zouzou / Princess Tam-Tam
Genre: Comedy,Drama

ZOUZOU, 1934, Kino International, 92 min. Dir. Marc Allegret. Josephine Baker is the free-spirited Zouzou, a Creole girl who carries a torch for her adoptive brother, the ex-sailor electrician Jean (Jean Gabin). Raised in the circus as part of an exotic sideshow act, Jean and Zouzou head for Paris with where they find work at a music hall. What follows is part screwball comedy, part backstage musical, and part unrequited love triangle. PRINCESS TAM-TAM, 1935, Kino International, 77 min. Dir. Edmund T. Gréville. French novelist, Max (Albert Préjean), exhausted by his social whirlwind of a wife, takes a vacation to Tunisia to unwind. There, he meets a sheperdess named Alwina (Josephine Baker). When Max hears of his wife’s dalliances with a maharajah, he decides to work “Pygmalion”-style magic on the uneducated girl, giving her a crash course in civilized manners and returning to Paris with her to pass her off as an exotic princess.

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What is Zouzou / Princess Tam-Tam about?: ZOUZOU, 1934, Kino International, 92 min. Dir. Marc Allegret. Josephine Baker is the free-spirited Zouzou, a Creole girl who carries a torch for her adoptive brother, the ex-sailor electrician Jean (Jean Gabin). Raised in the circus as part of an exotic sideshow act, Jean and Zouzou head for Paris with where they find work at a music hall. What follows is part screwball comedy, part backstage musical, and part unrequited love triangle.
PRINCESS TAM-TAM, 1935, Kino International, 77 min. Dir. Edmund T. Gréville. French novelist, Max (Albert Préjean), exhausted by his social whirlwind of a wife, takes a vacation to Tunisia to unwind. There, he meets a sheperdess named Alwina (Josephine Baker). When Max hears of his wife’s dalliances with a maharajah, he decides to work “Pygmalion”-style magic on the uneducated girl, giving her a crash course in civilized manners and returning to Paris with her to pass her off as an exotic princess.