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Additional authors

1. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
2. Allen, Debbie, 1950-
3. Hall, Arsenio.
4. Whitfield, Lynn.
5. Baker, Jean-Claude.
6. Bogle, Donald.
7. O'Connor, Patrick, 1949-
8. Cartier, Jacqueline.
9. Levasseur, André.
10. Israel, Mark.
11. Greif, Leslie.
12. Lifetime Productions.
13. Unapix Entertainment, Inc.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (42 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Biography of African-American entertainer Josephine Baker, with special emphasis on her offstage role in the struggles for racial equality. Baker's life is traced from her impoverished childhood in St. Louis and her early performances in the musical Shuffle along in New York to her cataclysmic arrival on the Parisian stage in La revue nègre, and the subsequent high and low points of her life: her appearances at the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris ; her film roles, beginning with The siren of the tropics ; her return to New York in the Ziegfeld Follies ; her work in the French Resistance in World War II, for which she was decorated ; her battles for civil rights in the U.S., including a highly publicized vendetta with journalist Walter Winchell ; her adoption of the multiracial Rainbow Tribe ; her friendship with Princess Grace of Monaco ; and her comeback at age 69. Among the commentators are her adopted sons Jean-Claude Baker and Jarry Bouillon-Baker, and actor Lynn Whitfield, who played her in HBO's The Josephine Baker story. Baker herself is seen in numerous performance excerpts and in an interview recorded in May 1951.

Series statement

1. Intimate portrait

Subject

1. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
2. Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982
3. United States > Race relations
4. Dance
5. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 > Interviews
6. Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
7. African American entertainers > France > Biography
8. Dancers > France > Biography
9. Biographies
10. Video

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Biographies.
3. Video.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-4639

Credits (note)

1. Executive producer, Leslie Greif ; editing, Scott Gamzon, Geoff Klingman.

Performer (note)

1. Narrator: Arsenio Hall.
2. Interviewees: Debbie Allen, Arsenio Hall, Lynn Whitfield, Jean-Claude Baker, Donald Bogle, Patrick O'Connor, Jarry Bouillon-Baker, Jacqueline Cartier, André Levasseur.

Event (note)

1. Originally telecast by Lifetime Television.

Title

1. Josephine Baker [videorecording] / produced by the Greif Company in association with Lifetime Productions Inc. ; directed by Mark Israel ; produced by Kenny Golde and Laura Anne Edwards.

Imprint

1. U.S. : Lifetime Productions, c1998 ; Seattle, Wash. : Unapix Entertainment, Lifetime Home Video, c1999.

Series

1. Intimate portrait

Event

1. Originally telecast by Lifetime Television.

Credits

1. Executive producer, Leslie Greif ; editing, Scott Gamzon, Geoff Klingman.

Performer

1. Narrator: Arsenio Hall.
2. Interviewees: Debbie Allen, Arsenio Hall, Lynn Whitfield, Jean-Claude Baker, Donald Bogle, Patrick O'Connor, Jarry Bouillon-Baker, Jacqueline Cartier, André Levasseur.

Added author

1. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Performer
2. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Interviewee
3. Allen, Debbie, 1950- interviewee.
4. Hall, Arsenio. Interviewee. Narrator
5. Whitfield, Lynn. Interviewee
6. Baker, Jean-Claude. Interviewee
7. Bogle, Donald. Interviewee
8. O'Connor, Patrick, 1949- interviewee.
9. Cartier, Jacqueline. Interviewee
10. Levasseur, André. Interviewee
11. Israel, Mark. Director
12. Greif, Leslie. Producer
13. Lifetime Productions.
14. Unapix Entertainment, Inc.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-4639