Josephine Baker French Glamour Film Actress Singer Dancer Photo Postcard

WHD  This is a rarely found undated but modern origin published postcard featuring Freda Josephine Baker who was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress which this beautiful rare collectors souvenir has full details of her history and achievements on reverse unused and mint.

".... Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 April 12, 1975), also spelled JosÈphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri …tiÈvant. 

During her early career, Baker was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies BergËre in Paris. Her performance in its 1927 revue Un vent de folie caused a sensation in the city. Her costume, consisting only of a short skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded necklace, became an iconic image and a symbol both of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Baker was celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously dubbed her the "Black Venus", the "Black Pearl", the "Bronze Venus", and the "Creole Goddess.

Baker aided the French Resistance during World War II,  and also worked with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the United States Office of Strategic Services, the extent of which was not publicized until 2020, when French documents were declassified. After the war, she was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by General Charles de Gaulle.  Baker sang: "I have two loves: my country and Paris."  She refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States, and is also noted for her contributions to the civil rights movement..."