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• catalog abstract "Josephine Baker once told Jean-Claude Baker that after she died he would discover the truth about her. Now, after two decades of exhaustive worldwide research, he has done just that, but the truth turns out to be much more fascinating - and shocking - than the legends that have attached themselves to her. Here's the neglected child starving for attention in the slums of St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl who shamelessly stole the spotlight from the stars - and became the sensation of Europe. Josephine was the self-proclaimed Universal Mother, who gathered children from many countries, the expatriate who was erratic about the civil rights movement, and the outrageous entertainer who dared to become the first black sex symbol of this century. Jean-Claude Baker collected the voices of men and women who, over the decades, shared the stage with Josephine. Here are the tales of the great impresarios and showmen who toasted her name from Paris to Rio, of her friends, her enemies, her servants, her lovers, and her family. Though she never knew her father, she always claimed to be of mixed racial heritage. She was a secret agent; she was kept by princes and sultans. She hated being black and never forgave white people for what they had done to her race. In this rich and evocative biography, spiced with never-before-revealed facts and anecdotes, Josephine Baker comes to life again. Through the monumental efforts of a man who has devoted a good part of his life to her memory, we see, at last, the complex woman who was one of our century's most captivating celebrities - the one who broke all the rules.".
• catalog contributor b4272670.
• catalog contributor b4272671.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description ""She is like Salome, she has seven veils" -- Paris, October 1928: All hell breaks loose : "She had no shame in from of those crackers" -- Terror before the opening : "Josephine, don't you jump out that window!" -- Elvira, Carrie, the beginnings : "Grandma often talked about slave days" -- Childhood in St. Louis : "There are no bastards in my family!" -- Race riots, and Tumpy leaves town : "Oh God, why didn't you make us all one color?" -- Josephine marries at thirteen : "She cut his head open with a beer bottle" -- Life on the T.O.B.A. circuit : "It was going from one dinky theater to another" -- Josephine tries marriage for the second time : "She was a little snip, about fifteen years old" -- On the road with Shuffle Along : "Some of those girls treated Joe like a dog" -- You can go home again, if you don't stay there : "My mother, poor woman, I was ashamed of her" -- In Bamville, or The Chocolate Dandies : "She'd be laughing, to her the work was joy" -- ".
• catalog description "Another husband, more lovers, and sex, sex, sex : "She knew I was gay but she had to possess you" --".
• catalog description "In this rich and evocative biography, spiced with never-before-revealed facts and anecdotes, Josephine Baker comes to life again. Through the monumental efforts of a man who has devoted a good part of his life to her memory, we see, at last, the complex woman who was one of our century's most captivating celebrities - the one who broke all the rules.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Jean-Claude Baker collected the voices of men and women who, over the decades, shared the stage with Josephine. Here are the tales of the great impresarios and showmen who toasted her name from Paris to Rio, of her friends, her enemies, her servants, her lovers, and her family.".
• catalog description "Josephine Baker once told Jean-Claude Baker that after she died he would discover the truth about her. Now, after two decades of exhaustive worldwide research, he has done just that, but the truth turns out to be much more fascinating - and shocking - than the legends that have attached themselves to her. Here's the neglected child starving for attention in the slums of St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl who shamelessly stole the spotlight from the stars - and became the sensation of Europe.".
• catalog description "Josephine goes to war : "I am ready to give the Parisians my life" -- Arabian nights : "As a mistriss, she wanted the whole treatment" -- Rediscovering her race : "My people, my people, I have abandoned them!" -- Josephine, heroine of the resistance : "That German cow in my blue satin sheets!" -- Josephine dumps a millionaire for a bandleader : "I can't marry Claude, he's much too jealous" -- Breaking the color bar in Miami : "She wanted to go down in history, like Lincoln" -- The fued with Walter Winchell : "She broke my heart, I am a finished man" -- A career collapses, a universal mother is born : "I want to adopt five little two-year-old boys" -- Life is a cabaret at Les Milandes : "Jo [Bouillon] would seduce young men" -- More comebacks, more babies, more losses : "In 1959, Josephine Baker was a has-been" -- Twenty lawsuits and the Legion of Honor : "I can't take care of six hundred acres and eleven children" -- The March on Washington, and the death of JFK : "I'm not the star, just another sister" -- Uncle Fidel, and last gasps at Les Milandes : "I know God will not abandon me" -- Down and almost out in Paris : "What happened to all that money?" -- Princess Grace to the rescue : "I want to be buried in the nightgown of my agony" -- Maman is tough on the kids ... and herself : "At a certain age, one should stop having sex" -- A plan to make three million dollars in America : "She knew how to profit from her friends" -- Josephine marries "in spirit," and wrecks a tour : "Once men get what they want, they keep walking" -- Josephine is sick but won't admit it : "It was her last chance to reconquer Paris" -- Going out in a blaze of glory : "We always believed she was immortal" -- An open letter to my second mother : "You were a hustler; I'm a hustler too".".
• catalog description "Josephine was the self-proclaimed Universal Mother, who gathered children from many countries, the expatriate who was erratic about the civil rights movement, and the outrageous entertainer who dared to become the first black sex symbol of this century.".
• catalog description "Summer of '25: heat and Harlem nights : "She was hanging over Seventh Avenue, stark naked" -- Mrs. Reagan comes to Harlem : "I got off at Lenox Avenue ... I was happy" -- A shipboard romance, and Hello, Paris : "Men and women kissing in the streets!" -- Josephine checks out poets, painters, waiters : "I wanted to seduce the whole capital" -- The good times roll : "We need tits" -- Josephine betrays a friend : "She had flown, she had been stolen from me" -- The Folies-Bergè: everyone goes bananas : "I was manicured, pedicured...." -- Enter Pepito : "He used to beat the hell out of her" -- Condemned by church and state : "They denounced me as the black devil!" -- Sex and the (sort of) married woman : "She saw him with his pants off, we didn't" -- A star of the Ziegfeld Follies : "I don't want to be refused in a hotel" -- Bad times in Harlem : "She insisted on speaking only French" -- Trashed by critics, envied by peers : "My God, how does it feel to be a big star?" -- ".
• catalog description "Though she never knew her father, she always claimed to be of mixed racial heritage. She was a secret agent; she was kept by princes and sultans. She hated being black and never forgave white people for what they had done to her race.".
• catalog extent "xxiii, 532 p., [32] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Josephine.".
• catalog identifier "0679409157 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Josephine.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
• catalog relation "Josephine.".
• catalog spatial "France".
• catalog subject "792.8/028/092 B 20".
• catalog subject "African American entertainers France Biography.".
• catalog subject "Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.".
• catalog subject "Dancers France Biography.".
• catalog subject "GV1785.B3 B35 1993".
• catalog tableOfContents ""She is like Salome, she has seven veils" -- Paris, October 1928: All hell breaks loose : "She had no shame in from of those crackers" -- Terror before the opening : "Josephine, don't you jump out that window!" -- Elvira, Carrie, the beginnings : "Grandma often talked about slave days" -- Childhood in St. Louis : "There are no bastards in my family!" -- Race riots, and Tumpy leaves town : "Oh God, why didn't you make us all one color?" -- Josephine marries at thirteen : "She cut his head open with a beer bottle" -- Life on the T.O.B.A. circuit : "It was going from one dinky theater to another" -- Josephine tries marriage for the second time : "She was a little snip, about fifteen years old" -- On the road with Shuffle Along : "Some of those girls treated Joe like a dog" -- You can go home again, if you don't stay there : "My mother, poor woman, I was ashamed of her" -- In Bamville, or The Chocolate Dandies : "She'd be laughing, to her the work was joy" -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Another husband, more lovers, and sex, sex, sex : "She knew I was gay but she had to possess you" --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Josephine goes to war : "I am ready to give the Parisians my life" -- Arabian nights : "As a mistriss, she wanted the whole treatment" -- Rediscovering her race : "My people, my people, I have abandoned them!" -- Josephine, heroine of the resistance : "That German cow in my blue satin sheets!" -- Josephine dumps a millionaire for a bandleader : "I can't marry Claude, he's much too jealous" -- Breaking the color bar in Miami : "She wanted to go down in history, like Lincoln" -- The fued with Walter Winchell : "She broke my heart, I am a finished man" -- A career collapses, a universal mother is born : "I want to adopt five little two-year-old boys" -- Life is a cabaret at Les Milandes : "Jo [Bouillon] would seduce young men" -- More comebacks, more babies, more losses : "In 1959, Josephine Baker was a has-been" -- Twenty lawsuits and the Legion of Honor : "I can't take care of six hundred acres and eleven children" -- The March on Washington, and the death of JFK : "I'm not the star, just another sister" -- Uncle Fidel, and last gasps at Les Milandes : "I know God will not abandon me" -- Down and almost out in Paris : "What happened to all that money?" -- Princess Grace to the rescue : "I want to be buried in the nightgown of my agony" -- Maman is tough on the kids ... and herself : "At a certain age, one should stop having sex" -- A plan to make three million dollars in America : "She knew how to profit from her friends" -- Josephine marries "in spirit," and wrecks a tour : "Once men get what they want, they keep walking" -- Josephine is sick but won't admit it : "It was her last chance to reconquer Paris" -- Going out in a blaze of glory : "We always believed she was immortal" -- An open letter to my second mother : "You were a hustler; I'm a hustler too".".
• catalog tableOfContents "Summer of '25: heat and Harlem nights : "She was hanging over Seventh Avenue, stark naked" -- Mrs. Reagan comes to Harlem : "I got off at Lenox Avenue ... I was happy" -- A shipboard romance, and Hello, Paris : "Men and women kissing in the streets!" -- Josephine checks out poets, painters, waiters : "I wanted to seduce the whole capital" -- The good times roll : "We need tits" -- Josephine betrays a friend : "She had flown, she had been stolen from me" -- The Folies-Bergè: everyone goes bananas : "I was manicured, pedicured...." -- Enter Pepito : "He used to beat the hell out of her" -- Condemned by church and state : "They denounced me as the black devil!" -- Sex and the (sort of) married woman : "She saw him with his pants off, we didn't" -- A star of the Ziegfeld Follies : "I don't want to be refused in a hotel" -- Bad times in Harlem : "She insisted on speaking only French" -- Trashed by critics, envied by peers : "My God, how does it feel to be a big star?" -- ".
• catalog title "Josephine : the hungry heart / by Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".