Josephine Baker
Biography
Josephine Baker was a renowned American-born French dancer and performer, celebrated for her iconic image in the 1927 revue Un vent de folie at the Folies Bergère in Paris, where she stunned audiences with her costume of artificial bananas. A trailblazer, she became the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics.