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Josephine Baker Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer and French Resistance agent. Her early career was centred mostly in her adopted France. She was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Follies Bergere in Paris. Her performance in the revue in 1927 caused a sensation. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became an iconic image and a symbol of the jazz age and the 1920s. She was called the Black Venus. She was known for aiding the French Resistance during the war and was awarded the Croix de Geurre . Josephine Baker was born in St.Louis in 1906 to Carrie Mcdonald and died in 1975 and is buried in Monaco. There was reputed to be up to 20,000 mourners parading the streets of Paris during her funeral.