
Before Madonna. Before Marilyn. There was Josephine.
The Josephine Baker Story
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
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Lynn Whitfield
Josephine Baker

Rubén Blades
Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino

David Dukes
Jo Bouillon

Louis Gossett Jr.
Sidney Williams

Craig T. Nelson
Walter Winchell

Kene Holliday
Sidney Bechet

Vivian Bonnell
Josephine's Mother

Robert Lesser
Copa City Manager

Eartha Robinson
Female Singer / Dancer

Zoltán Gera
Folies Bergeres Producer

Péter Kertész
Casablanca Doctor

Debbie Javor
American Woman at Party
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