Josephine Baker to be honored by France:

[Tom47]

Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906.  Most people may think of her as someone who danced in a banana skirt and who made funny faces.  She did do that, but did so much more and because of what she has done in November she will receive the honor of being entered into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, an honor reserved for heroes of France.  Josephine moved to Paris in the early 1920s where she performed in dance reviews.  That was her start.  She soon opened her own business, a night club named Chez Josephine, starred in multiple films, both silent and talkies, was a singer, was part of the civil rights movement in the United States and later in life adopted children from many parts of the world.  Most pertinent to her upcoming honor and perhaps most surprising to many people is that after getting French citizenship she took on the dangerous job of working with the French resistance against the invading Nazis, with the rank of second lieutenant and thus helped defeat facsim.  For this she was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Rosette de la Résistance.  Here she sings one of my favorite pieces of music  “La Vie en Rose” a song written by Edith Piaf (some minor nudity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5yn8q6GNM.

Tom,