Born in St. Louis, Missouri,
Josephine Baker grows up poor. She starts to display her talents on the American Vaudeville circuit in 1917. Unhappy with the treatment of African-Americans in her homeland, she travels to Paris and finds success as an exotic dancer and cabaret singer loved by the Europeans. Her manager, an Italian pseudo-count, decides to have her return to Broadway, and she fails miserably. However, she remains a strong, outspoken person who soon takes her show on the road and turn heads. Outrageous, shocking, sensational - Josephine Baker will always be remembered as the first, and possibly most loved, truly international star.
—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>