[78-L] Subject: Josephine Baker / Australian 78 recording factory sites

[David Sanderson]

Malcolm Smith wrote:
> Josephine Baker also made some films in France in which she's quite  
> wonderful. At one point, after the war she came back to New York and  
> was turned away at the door of the Stork Club in New York. Little  
> wonder she preferred France like numerous other black American  
> performers. (I can go back to the e-mail I sent about Lil Harden).
> 
> Malcolm Smith.

She was an amazing physical performer, capable of doing ballet or 
jungle-ish antics, extraordinarily comfortable in her body with the 
semi-nude performances at the Folies and in movies.  There are clips on 
Youtube and several films available that I've had through Netflix.

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      David Sanderson
      East Waterford, Maine

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