Chicago Theater Review: BLACK PEARL: A TRIBUTE TO JOSEPHINE BAKER (Black Ensemble Theater)
C'EST SI BON! She was infamous for her 1927 "costume" in Un Vent de Folie"a girdle of bananas. In 1934 she became the first African American woman to have a major role in a film. Acquiring four husbands and lovers from both sexes, she became the toast of Paris–rather than remain in America, a second-class […]