Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)

Josephine Baker

American-born French entertainer (1906–1975)

Freda Josephine Baker, naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of…