The life of Josephine Baker—entertainer, civil rights activist, spy for the French Resistance in World War II—is a story that sounds like fiction even before being dramatized, and now author Sherry ...

It was the most risqué act in Paris. Every night at the Folies-Bergère in Montmartre, Josephine Baker performed an erotic dance wearing nothing more than a miniskirt of artificial bananas. No female ...

“Josephine Baker was a trendsetter and the trend, in my opinion, was Blackness,” award-winning ballet soloist Gabe Stone Sheyer said poignantly about the legacy of the renowned dancer 100 years after ...

Josephina Baker, AKA “La Baker,” was a notorious black performer who left the United States because of oppressive segregation. Claiming France as her new Motherland, Baker performed her signature ...

Actress Paula Patton gets into why she decided to create a series about jazz singer Josephine Baker and how she became a trendsetter. She also explains how she wants to tell the icon's story.

Paula Patton has optioned film and television rights to 'Josephine Baker’s Last Dance,' a novel by Sherry Jones, with the aim of starring in and producing an adaptation. By Borys Kit Senior Film ...

*Paula Patton has optioned film and television rights to Sherry Jones’ biographical novel “Josephine Baker’s Last Dance.” The actress will reportedly star in and produce an adaptation about the jazz ...

Exclusive: Chez Josephine was a piece of famed performer Josephine Baker’s story that is not widely known, but for which, a quiet war was waged and lost In artistic Montmartre, Paris, a stone’s throw ...

Rare archives resolve the puzzle of Josephine Baker's fascinating 50-year-long career. The amazing story of the first Black superstar. Baker, born into poverty in Missouri in 1906, moved to France ...

The Flame of Resistance: The Untold Story of Josephine Baker’s Secret War. By Damien Lewis. Quercus; 496 pages; £21.99. To be published as “Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy” ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. “Josephine Baker's Last Dance” A novel by Sherry Jones Published by Gallery Books, 365 pages, $16 (trade paperback) Josephine ...