Josephine Baker (Dancer & Actress) 2010

Tribute Collectables Film & Stage Stars 1920 –1940 Josephine Baker (Dancer & Actress) 2010 Josephine Baker (Dancer & Actress) 2010 10 - Throughout her flamboyant life, Josephine Baker, was as much known for her celebrity status as for the dancing talent that first made her famous. Heading to Paris from America in 1925 at the age of 19, she became a sensation in ‘La Revue Negre’, then star of the Folies Bergere. Having taken French citizenship, she became a wartime Resistance courier and spy, for which she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the 1950s she returned to the States and took up the civil rights cause, but the later years were back in France and she became the first American woman to receive a state funeral in that country. Photo fronts, story backs, size 68 x 36mm.

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Issuer: Tribute Collectables Condition: Mint * These are original and NOT reprints Description: Throughout her flamboyant life, Josephine Baker, was as much known for her celebrity status as for the dancing talent that first made her famous. Heading to Paris from America in 1925 at the age of 19, she became a sensation in ‘La Revue Negre’, then star of the Folies Bergere. Having taken French citizenship, she became a wartime Resistance courier and spy, for which she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the 1950s she returned to the States and took up the civil rights cause, but the later years were back in France and she became the first American woman to receive a state funeral in that country. Photo fronts, story backs, size 68 x 36mm. Number of cards in set: 10

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