She performed with a string of bananas tied around her waist, an electrifying act that led her to become first a local sensation in Paris, and then an international star.
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, France, July 5, 1959: Josephine Baker, her husband Jo (Joe) Bouillon and several of their ten adopted children at their home of Les Milandes in the Dordogne Valley. Baker has ...