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Josephine Baker

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

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Additional Authors
  • Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
  • Allen, Debbie, 1950-
  • Hall, Arsenio.
  • Whitfield, Lynn.
  • Baker, Jean-Claude.
  • Bogle, Donald.
  • O'Connor, Patrick, 1949-
  • Cartier, Jacqueline.
  • Levasseur, André.
  • Israel, Mark.
  • Greif, Leslie.
  • Lifetime Productions.
  • Unapix Entertainment, Inc.
Description
1 videocassette (42 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
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
Intimate portrait
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Biographies.
  • Video.
Credits (note)
  • Executive producer, Leslie Greif ; editing, Scott Gamzon, Geoff Klingman.
Performer (note)
  • Narrator: Arsenio Hall.
  • Interviewees: Debbie Allen, Arsenio Hall, Lynn Whitfield, Jean-Claude Baker, Donald Bogle, Patrick O'Connor, Jarry Bouillon-Baker, Jacqueline Cartier, André Levasseur.
Event (note)
  • Originally telecast by Lifetime Television.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4639
OCLC
NYPY00-F902
Title
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
U.S. : Lifetime Productions, c1998 ; Seattle, Wash. : Unapix Entertainment, Lifetime Home Video, c1999.
Series
Intimate portrait
Event
Originally telecast by Lifetime Television.
Credits
Executive producer, Leslie Greif ; editing, Scott Gamzon, Geoff Klingman.
Performer
Narrator: Arsenio Hall.
Interviewees: Debbie Allen, Arsenio Hall, Lynn Whitfield, Jean-Claude Baker, Donald Bogle, Patrick O'Connor, Jarry Bouillon-Baker, Jacqueline Cartier, André Levasseur.
Added Author
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Performer
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Interviewee
Allen, Debbie, 1950- interviewee.
Hall, Arsenio. Interviewee. Narrator
Whitfield, Lynn. Interviewee
Baker, Jean-Claude. Interviewee
Bogle, Donald. Interviewee
O'Connor, Patrick, 1949- interviewee.
Cartier, Jacqueline. Interviewee
Levasseur, André. Interviewee
Israel, Mark. Director
Greif, Leslie. Producer
Lifetime Productions.
Unapix Entertainment, Inc.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4639
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