Cast: Josephine Baker

Direction Ilana Navaro

Cast Josephine Baker

Synopsis To reduce Josephine Baker to her famously exuberant banana-skirt dance would be like erasing more than half of the story. A free, committed woman who was born into poverty, cabaret dancer and, for a time, Simenon’s lover, she used her...

Direction Gian Carlo Bertelli

Cast Sergei M. Eisenstein · Josephine Baker · Charles Chaplin · Mikhail Kalinin

Synopsis An autobiographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. Based on his own writings, the film uses actual film clips of...

Direction Joe Francis

Cast Josephine Baker · André Luguet · Hélène Hallier · Pépa Bonafé

Synopsis Gabrielle, an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and...

Direction Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast Josephine Baker · Micheline Presle · Georges Marchal · Raymond Aimos

Synopsis World War II has begun, but Parisian neighbors Dalban (biographer of Napoleon) and Mme. Ancelot still feud over his claim that her great- great-grandmother did *not* sleep with the Emperor! Their underage children Claire and Bernard are in love, but...

Direction Lutz Becker

Cast Josef Goebbels · Adolf Hitler · Buster Keaton · Josephine Baker

Synopsis Lutz Becker lets newsreels, home movies and other archive footage tell the tale of Hitler's rise to power after WWI.

Direction Cyril Leuthy

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Armand Dranem · Félix Mayol · Fred Freed

Synopsis French artist Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), a legend of stage and screen, was an accomplished singer, actor and entertainer, who embodied the charm of his native Paris throughout a decades-long career that brought him fame in Europe and America and left...

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Josephine Baker · Jean Gabin · Pierre Larquey · Ivette Lebo

Direction Mario Nalpas · Henri Étiévant

Cast Josephine Baker · Pierre Batcheff · Régina Dalthy · Regina Thomas

Synopsis Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis. Filled with jealousy, the marquis sends André to...

Direction Edmond T. Gréville

Cast Josephine Baker · Albert Préjean · Robert Arnoux · Germaine Aussey

Synopsis Max de Mirecourt, celebrated French novelist, takes a vacation from his social-butterfly wife in Tunisia, where he meets beautiful Alwina, a barefoot hill shepherdess. To cure his writer's block, Max casts Alwina as heroine in a real-life 'Pygmalion' story. She...

Direction Aldo Bonaldi · Aldo Quinti

Cast Luigi Erminio D'Olivo · Josephine Baker · Aldo Fabrizi · Gino Latilla