Josephine Baker hanging out with her pet cheetah in 1931. The cheetah’s name? Chiquita. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS.
Josephine Baker getting a little kiss from Geoffrey Holder in 1964. I’m guessing this is probably backstage at “Josephine Baker And Her Company,” her musical revue that appreared briefly on Broadway that year. Both Mr. Holder and his wife Carmen de Lavallade performed in the show with Ms. Baker and, in the video clip linked in the comment section, Mr. Holder discusses, with his signature verve, what a delight it was for he and Ms. de Lavallade to work with Ms. Baker. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives.
Can’t believe I haven’t posted Josephine Baker all year! Here she is in 1951, backstage in LA. You’re welcome! Photo: Hulton Archives/Getty.
Josephine Baker surrounded by admirers at the Olympia theater in Paris in the 1940s surrounded by admirers. Her husband, Jo Bouillon and the French singer and actor, Georges Guetary are at her side. Photo: Maurice Zalewski, Gamma-Rapho/Getty.
43-year-old Josephine Baker is being served prosciutto & melon in Venice in 1949. Today (October 25) is my 43rd birthday and to celebrate, I thought I would post photos of some of my favorite VBG legends at the age of 43. Sadly, too many did not make it to 43 (Dorothy Dandridge, Dinah Washington, Diana Sands, Lorraine Hansberry) but many did and did it well. Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images.
Tired of seeing the same old photos of Josephine Baker in a banana skirt, writer Nichelle Gainer started a blog showcasing rarely seen photos of African-American actors, educators, writers, students, musicians and more.
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Photo: William Gottlieb/Library of Congress
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Tired of seeing the same old photos of Josephine Baker in a banana skirt, writer Nichelle Gainer started a blog showcasing rarely seen photos of African-American actors, educators, writers, students, musicians and more.
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Photo: William Gottlieb/Library of Congress
Josephine Baker urging Joe Louis to sing with her during her opening performance at the Club Des Champs Elysees in Paris in the early 1950s. Photo: Rene Henry/Bettman Corbis.
And you thought it was impossible to come up with more fabulous images of Josephine Baker… In this June 1945 photograph, she is entertaining the troops (and one very lucky, shy soldier) at a London victory party. Photo by Jack Esten/Getty Images.
Josephine Baker relaxes with a cocktail in Venice after a hard day’s work in 1940. Photo: Getty Images.
Serge Lifar and Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker and the legendary Russian ballet dancer Serge Lifar on the beach, probably somewhere in France. Very probably in the early 1930s. Photo: Hôtel des Ventes, Genève
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Josephine Baker and her husband, bandleader Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964.
Do you ever get enough of Josephine Baker? I don’t! Here, she is in Christian Dior in March 1951, singing into a mic which conceals her hand-held corsage onstage at the Strand theater in New York during her US tour. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
