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00:01A CIDADE NO BRASIL
00:02Joséphine Baker
00:03foi a dança branca que levou o mundo por storm.
00:09Unique e exótico,
00:11comico e controverso.
00:15Artes e fotografias
00:17chamaram ela o Nefertiti de Now.
00:21Dehamos de inovação,
00:23ela foi inventiva, original
00:25e pioneering.
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00:29Joséphine Baker
00:30foi capaz de abelir
00:32essas bandas
00:33em uma forma
00:33que era muito edgy
00:36e descoberto
00:38no tempo,
00:39mas ela conseguiu fazer isso.
00:41Mas a vida
00:42seria muito mais do que a dança.
00:46Deve ser um descoberto
00:48a civil-rights-crusador.
00:51Ela não conseguiu
00:53ela conseguiu perform
00:54para audiências
00:55que não foram integradas.
00:58Ela não viu o ponto.
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04:20Então, é isso que nós nos vemos.
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04:31Um grande,
04:35o que ficou com 30,
04:38o que foi morrer.
04:41Um proprietário
04:43forceder uma caixa em na locelor
04:45e sobre-se em seu serviço.
04:47mas não era a única dificuldade que ela enfrentava.
04:51São São Loui é um gato muito pobre.
04:57Este é um período em que muitos trabalhadores agrícola do Sul
05:02vão para o norte para tomar emprego industrial em cidades.
05:07Inevitável tensão, há uma equipe econômica,
05:10as pessoas perderem seus emprego,
05:11e os homens negros estão tomando os emprego de pessoas.
05:18Em dia 2 de julho, 1917,
05:22frustração entre os homens e os negros brinquedos brinquedos brinquedos.
05:26Os homens brinquedos foram escondidos e mortos mortos.
05:32Joséphine witnessed, primeiro-hand,
05:34a violência extrema de os rastros de São Loui,
05:38depois a pior em uma história da América.
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09:00Grand music halls
09:01Like the Moulin Rouge
09:02And the Café de Paris
09:04Put on grander and grander performances
09:10As each vied to create the most costly
09:12and elaborate spectacle
09:19Josephine's introduction to the Paris stage
09:21was billed as La Revue Negra
09:23The Negro vaudeville
09:28She took the opportunity to shine
09:33I improvise crazed by the music
09:36Even my teeth and my eyes burned with fever
09:41Each time I leaped
09:42I seemed to touch the sky
09:44And I regained earth
09:46It seemed to be mine alone
09:50In 1926, Josephine starred at the Folies Beigères
09:55as Fatou, an African native
09:58for a revue La Folies du Jour
10:02The banana dance wowed her audiences
10:08They have this idea that because she's black
10:11she's from Africa
10:12And of course she's an incredibly streetwise
10:17African American kid from East St. Louis
10:19in the middle of the U.S.
10:21No idea what Africa is at all
10:23And you look at the movements she's doing
10:25They're Charleston movements
10:27She's doing that thing where you put your hands on your knees
10:31and cross over
10:32It's not African tribal movement at all
10:36Josephine is very sussed about the funny ideas
10:40that Europeans have about black people
10:42Josephine Baker was almost post-modern
10:45before even the term came about
10:46She was able to sort of pick and choose
10:48from these different types of stereotypes
10:50or representations of what
10:53sort of the European cultural imagination
10:55thought blackness or exoticness should be
10:57And she was able to sort of take those tropes
11:00and physicalize them
11:02and then feed them back through parody
11:03through satire
11:04through sort of playing into them
11:07but also subverting them
11:12Josephine's plantation dance
11:14again took negative images of black performers
11:17and turned them into something more positive
11:21She's a kind of stand-up comedian
11:23and she does some quite extraordinary things
11:25kind of moments where she breaks down onto the floor
11:29she lands on her knees
11:31kind of do not do this at home
11:33Some of what she's doing almost looks like break dancing
11:39In Europe, Josephine seemed innovative and original
11:43and her success was instant
11:47Within months of her opening night
11:49at the Folie Begier
11:50Josephine was making more money
11:53than any other entertainer in Europe
11:58She rivaled movie stars like Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford
12:02as the most photographed woman in the world
12:04and received a thousand marriage proposals in the mail
12:09She had this thing called baker fixe
12:12which was a gel for the hair
12:14because everyone wanted to have hair like her
12:17She marketed a lot of products
12:18because she sort of became sort of the representation
12:21of the modern woman in France
12:24She used the fascination with primitivism
12:26and with blackness to her advantage
12:30Her exotic performances were mirrored by real-life extravagance
12:34Her dressing rooms and hotel rooms
12:37became home to a host of bizarre pets
12:40including a parrot and a boa constrictor
12:44It wasn't unusual to find Josephine strolling down the Champs Elysees
12:49with her golden-eyed leopard Chiquita
12:51both adorned in diamonds
12:57Throughout the remainder of the 1920s
12:59a relentless performing schedule
13:02included a two-year 25 country world tour
13:08By 1929
13:10Josephine had her own nightclub, Chez Josephine
13:13and was worth more than a million dollars
13:16making her the richest black woman in the world
13:21Then in 1935
13:23she was offered an opportunity that she couldn't refuse
13:37A part in the 1936 version of the Zeke failed follies in New York
13:42gave her the perfect chance to make it big back home in America
13:47But Josephine wasn't prepared for the reaction she'd receive
13:52Although New York City wasn't segregated like the South
13:55there were still situations where it was uncomfortable
13:58for white audiences to see black bodies on stage
14:01and there wasn't such a thing as sort of an integrated audience
14:04So she did not like that
14:05But in 1936, you know, the type of performance
14:09the type of dancing
14:10the type of sort of theatrical spectacle
14:12that she was used to doing in Paris
14:14didn't go well for her in the United States
14:22Critics panned her performance
14:25Josephine's singing voice
14:26which was now a regular feature in her shows
14:29was regarded as too weak to fill the Winter Garden Theatre
14:36New Yorkers were confused by a black woman speaking with a French accent
14:40and her banana dance fell flat
14:47Time magazine was particularly harsh
14:49calling her a Negro wench
14:53whose dancing and singing
14:54might be topped practically anywhere outside of Paris
14:58Meanwhile, her co-stars received lavish praise
15:05Worse still
15:06the management at Josephine's hotel in New York City
15:09informed her that because she was black
15:12she would have to use the servants entrance
15:18Disillusioned, she returned to her adopted home in Paris in 1936
15:27She was welcomed by hordes of fans at the train station
15:31When she arrived back to Paris, they, you know, she gave her bouquets
15:35and she actually sang the song that made her famous, J'ai deux amours
15:38and she immediately began another run at the Folies Bergères
15:42and she did a tour of Europe
15:44Not so much any of the banana dancing, right, but it was still
15:47Josephine Baker as sort of the vedette, the star
15:54Following her tours, she reopened her cabaret show at Chez Josephine
16:01She also met a handsome Jewish sugar tycoon, Jean Lyon
16:07Lyon was impressed with Josephine's energy and exuberance
16:11while she was dazzled by the 27-year-old's looks
16:15She converted to Judaism
16:18and even gave up her US citizenship
16:21becoming a French citizen to marry him
16:24And in the spring of 1937, they filled their days
16:29racing through the French countryside on horseback
16:32and in expensive cars
16:36Josephine also found a passion for flying aeroplanes
16:40rushing off to the aerodrome whenever she could
16:53But the union with Lyon would be short-lived
16:57Baker's reluctance to quit touring to become a stay-at-home wife
17:00was part of the problem
17:04When she miscarried their child
17:06she took the opportunity to end the relationship
17:17During the 1930s, the rise of fascism across Europe
17:21had worried Josephine
17:23In 1938, as she began another European tour
17:27the German army marched into Austria
17:34In November, Jewish homes and businesses across Germany and Austria
17:39were ransacked and razed to the ground by Adolf Hitler's brown shirts
17:47The murder of nearly 100 Jews
17:50and the removal of 25,000 Jews to concentration camps
17:54during the night of broken glass
17:56prompted Josephine to join the International League
17:59against racism and anti-Semitism
18:09When the German army invaded Poland in September 1939
18:13Britain and France immediately declared war
18:22Josephine threw herself into the war effort
18:29By 1940, she was giving all of her time to the Red Cross
18:34putting together boxes of food and finding housing for the homeless
18:40She also personally flew much-needed supplies across the border to Belgium
18:45Her work didn't go unnoticed
18:53Josephine was asked if she was interested in becoming an undercover agent for the Allies
19:05She leapt at the chance
19:07She leapt at the chance
19:07Becoming a member of Le Dizien Bureau
19:09The French military intelligence
19:14She leapt at the chance
19:19Becoming a member of Le Dizien Bureau
19:22The French military intelligence
19:25What she knew is she would have him sort of pretend to be her assistant or her travel companion
19:33Using her social contacts
19:34She was asked to attend as many embassy cocktail parties as possible
19:39Taking the opportunity to pick up idle gossip
19:43Everyone knew who she was
19:44And because of her fame
19:47She was able to sort of use the fame for political purposes
19:51In service of a country that had adopted her as her own
19:56At the Italian Embassy
19:58She was welcomed as a former acquaintance of Benito Mussolini
20:01Who she had unwittingly supported in the early 1930s
20:07Given the task of finding out if Italy intended to enter the war
20:12Within a week, she had produced what was described as extremely useful information
20:24In June 1940, after just six weeks of fighting
20:28The German army overwhelmed Holland and Belgium
20:37And advanced into Paris
20:46Hitler proudly toured the French capital
20:49As Josephine fled with thousands of other terrified citizens
20:55Despite her unique position
20:57Josephine recognised that as a black woman
21:00And a converted Jew
21:02As the war intensified
21:04She needed to find safe refuge
21:13She found it in the Dordogne Valley in the south of the country
21:16Still in the hands of the French
21:20Les Moulins was a large chateau she had once rented in 1938
21:27It would become the perfect place for hiding Belgian refugees
21:31And would-be French resistance fighters
21:38Throughout the remainder of 1940
21:40And much of 1941
21:43Josephine worked tirelessly for the resistance
21:51She charmed officials and diplomats into providing visas for her to travel across borders
21:56Performing in Portugal, Spain and French territories in North Africa
22:01Her celebrity profile meant she continued to be invited to endless embassy functions
22:08Josephine's job was to keep her ears open to potential German troop locations
22:14She eavesdropped on conversations and memorised as much as she could
22:21Later, locked in her hotel room, she would carefully write down everything she'd heard with an invisible ink pen on
22:27her sheet music
22:30The work was dangerous but exciting
22:33And Josephine thrived on it
22:44By the beginning of 1943, the Allies had recaptured most of North Africa
22:52Josephine had been in Casablanca when US troops had landed there
22:56For the next two and a half years, she toured the region
23:01Performing for the Allied troops
23:03Often up to five times a day
23:11She insisted that black and white soldiers sit together
23:15Controversial for an American army that still practiced racial segregation
23:20She wrote
23:23We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army
23:28Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
23:33She was very adamant that people of all different races and creeds could live together and could get along
23:38And she just refused to sort of perform to audiences that weren't, you know, integrated
23:44She just didn't see the, she didn't see the point
23:54On the 26th of August 1944, General Charles de Gaulle led his free French army together with US forces down
24:04the Champs Elysees
24:05As Parisians celebrated their liberation, Josephine was amongst them
24:1512 months later, after six long years, the war in Europe was over
24:21As was Josephine's career as a resistance agent
24:30She was awarded the Distinguished Medal of Resistance with Rosette
24:33And would later receive the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the French Republic
24:38In recognition of her wartime work
24:48In customary style, Josephine, now 40, began touring liberated Europe
24:55To raise funds for war victims
24:57By 1947, she had fallen in love again
25:04Joe Bouillon was a French band leader
25:07Who she had known since the 1930s
25:18Josephine returned with Bouillon to the Dordogne Valley
25:20And the grand but crumbling chateau, Les Melandes
25:24Which has served as her sanctuary in the early days of the war
25:33Josephine returned with Bouillon to the Dordogne Valley
25:33She bought the property and the couple were married there
25:37Together they set about the huge task of renovating it
25:48To help finance it, in 1951, Josephine toured the United States
25:54The visit would also give her a chance to win the public acceptance there that she craved
26:04Racial prejudice remained widespread throughout the country
26:08With segregation practiced to some degree in every state
26:14Josephine had become more and more vocal on the subject of civil rights
26:19Earning her the recognition of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
26:27But it also attracted white supremacist groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, who threatened her on numerous occasions
26:41Then in October 1951, she entered a fashionable New York eatery with a friend
26:48The Star Club in New York City was sort of this posh elite club that, you know, although the owner
26:54never specifically said that he did not want black people there
26:58It was clear that he don't believe that black people could enter his club, regardless of their fame and fortune
27:04Of course the store is, they order drinks, but she's hungry, she orders a meal
27:10And after an hour, nothing's come
27:15And that's the point at which she makes a phone call to her solicitor that she's going to make a
27:20complaint
27:21And they report it to the police
27:22Now, people say, well, perhaps Josephine Baker is being too uptight about this
27:31And the Stork Club's service is poor
27:35Justine Baker ran her own nightclub
27:38She knows how nightclubs work
27:40If she goes to all the trouble of getting up and phoning and making a complaint
27:47I think she knows what's going on
27:50The event was witnessed by the famous journalist, Walter Winchell
27:56He's somebody who has a kind of syndicated column in the newspapers all over the states
28:02And his Sunday night, 9pm broadcast is something that everybody listens to
28:10In an ill-judged move, Josephine publicly accused Winchell of turning a blind eye to the incident
28:18Winchell, himself a Jew, was outraged to be pulled into the dispute
28:24He used his radio show to hit back
28:27Claiming Josephine was anti-Semitic and anti-American
28:31Accusing her of aiding the Nazi-installed Vichy government
28:34And of whining and dining Mussolini's big-wig generals during the war
28:40How can this black woman have the nerve to come back to the States, a country that she rejected, right?
28:45And come and say all this and then get up and leave
28:47And who does she think she is, right?
28:49That would be sort of the underlying, the unspoken underlying narrative going on
28:53And sort of Walter Winchell's disdain for her
28:55And she just sort of became kind of this scapegoat
28:59The fallout from the Stork affair
29:02Resulted in many of Josephine's remaining bookings being cancelled
29:06Affecting her career in America for nearly two decades
29:18She returned to Les Moulins on a crusade, determined to address the world's inequalities
29:24By creating her own vision of the future
29:29Unable to conceive, probably as a result of a wartime illness and a number of miscarriages
29:36Josephine and Bouillon decided to adopt
29:41But their plans went far beyond that
29:46Josephine wanted to promote her own concept of Brotherhood of Man
29:50She wanted to demonstrate how different races could live in harmony
29:55In 1957, Josephine invited the BBC into her home
30:02She took the opportunity to introduce her rainbow tribe
30:05Here too, here's little Marianne and Brahim when they first arrived from Algiers
30:10And here's Jerry, Jerry's from Finland
30:14Angel, Jean-Claude Jo, look at him
30:17There's little devils, look at Marianne
30:19But she won't be left behind, look at her
30:21She began sort of this process of adopting children, orphans from different countries, different races
30:27And she unofficially adopted some and then eventually all the adoptions went through
30:32Cameras would come and show her, you know, being very maternal
30:35Very, you know, if you contrast what she would look like on stage
30:40To this very sort of simple hair pulled back, simple house dress
30:43Attending to her children, right, it was this new image of her
30:48The couple had invested heavily in Les Milan
30:51Installing a swimming pool, tennis courts and large vegetable gardens
30:56It was even opened to paying holiday guests
31:01Josephine was intent on creating a global village
31:05The Milan must live, it must not die
31:07This village is too important, it represents a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ideal
31:13And the ideal must not die, it mustn't
31:22But despite the image of a happy family, Josephine was spending more and more time away on tour
31:29To maintain Les Milan, which had become a huge drain on the family resources
31:38When she was at home, there were constant disputes between Josephine and the hired tutors and governesses
31:44Who resented her refusal to punish the children when they misbehaved
31:51There was also increasing tension between Josephine and her husband
31:56She was envious of his close relationship with the children
31:59While Joe saw himself as little more than a caretaker
32:05I can see she could be difficult to live with
32:08What's it do to you to suddenly be confronted by this screaming crowd?
32:16I mean, what's it like to be a superstar?
32:19You know, it does something to your ego
32:21How does Josephine Baker deal with that?
32:23I think, yes, maybe she does become a difficult person in her private life
32:26Because she's used to being a diva, she's used to this incredible adulation
32:35Josephine, naive when it came to money matters
32:37Continued to buy expensive clothing and jewellery while on tour
32:44Joe, always mindful of family finances
32:47Was helpless to his wife's extravagant spending habits
32:51He was also powerless to stop Josephine from adopting more children
32:56After the adoption of Coffey from the Ivory Coast
32:59The ninth child of the Rainbow Tribe
33:03Bouillon left
33:06The marriage, which had lasted nearly 13 years, was over
33:10And Josephine was about to enter the most turbulent period of her life, alone
33:19By the beginning of 1961, Josephine, once the wealthiest black woman in the world, faced bankruptcy
33:28She wrote
33:29I don't know how or where I'm going
33:33How will I manage?
33:35I only have a few thousand francs left
33:38But I realize how difficult it must be to live with people like me
33:54Josephine toured constantly, but her income continued to evaporate
33:58With poor business decisions and outrageous spending
34:07The press became more interested in her financial problems than the progress of her rainbow tribe, now numbering 12, who
34:16were no longer newsworthy
34:22Then, in August 1963, Josephine received an extraordinary invitation
34:30In the United States, 34-year-old Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. had become the figurehead of the civil
34:38rights movement
34:44That month, he planned a march on the American capital
34:49Josephine was determined to participate
34:53It would take Attorney General Bobby Kennedy's intervention to convince U.S. immigration she wasn't a national threat
35:01After her run-in with Walter Winchell, 12 years early
35:07The March on Washington took place on the 28th of August 1963
35:14Calling for equality, it was the largest civil rights gathering in American history
35:20Together with 250,000 others, Josephine marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial
35:27The rally was broadcast live on television
35:31I would simply like to say that I think this has been one of the great days of America
35:37King introduced the speakers
35:39The sole woman was Josephine, wearing her wartime uniform
35:45She spoke of her difficult childhood in St. Louis
35:48And of the life of equality she had led in France
35:51She filled the listeners with a dignified sense of hope
36:00When she stepped away from the microphone, the applause was deafening
36:06Many of the crowd had never heard of Josephine Baker
36:09But in a few minutes she had won their affection
36:16Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement for her represented
36:20You know, that hope, that hope that things were going to change
36:23And that black people could finally be seen as sort of 100% humans and citizens and valuable
36:30She later wrote
36:32Until the march on Washington, I always had this little feeling in my stomach
36:38I was always afraid I couldn't meet white American people
36:42I didn't want to be around them
36:46But now that little gnawing feeling is gone
36:49For the first time in my life I feel free
36:53I know that everything is right now
36:58But if Josephine felt optimistic about an improved life for black Americans
37:07Back at home, there was less to look forward to
37:11Problems at Les Melandes were reaching ahead
37:19In 1964, she suffered two heart attacks
37:24Brought on by the strain of supporting the children and the chateau
37:29Four years later, her global village was in crisis
37:35Unpaid staff walked out
37:37The building had fallen into disrepair
37:41And her debts totalled more than $500,000
37:47Josephine and the twelve children
37:49Had to live in a single room in the chateau
37:52As creditors moved in
37:54Auctioning off furniture and personal possessions from around her
38:00Finally, in early 1969, Josephine lost the battle to save her beloved home
38:07Les Melandes was sold
38:12Josephine sent the children off to her friends
38:16In a final defiant act, she barricaded herself inside her kitchen
38:23When the new owner had her forcibly removed
38:26She sat on the back step for seven hours in the rain
38:30The image was published around the world
38:41Josephine returned to Paris with her family
38:45Still in debt, she was reduced to living in a two-bedroom apartment
38:49With two dogs and twelve children
38:54Then, in 1969, Princess Grace of Monaco, the former American movie star
39:00Came to her aid
39:03Coincidentally, Grace had been at the Stork Club on the famous evening back in 1951
39:08In support of Baker, she had vowed never to return there
39:15Grace was keen to support Josephine again
39:21She invited her to perform at one of her Red Cross benefits in Monaco later that year
39:28The week-long review was well received
39:31And once again, Josephine began to get invitations and contracts across Europe
39:39With the Princess's approval, a Red Cross down payment of $20,000
39:45Allowed her to buy a four-bedroom villa on the coast close to Monaco
39:53But in need of a big hit, Josephine began touring once again
39:59In the summer of 1973, she flew to New York for the first in a series of concerts at Carnegie
40:06Hall
40:06In the hope of finding success in America one more time
40:13Just a few days before her 67th birthday, Josephine walked onto the stage on her opening night
40:22The audience rose to its feet, giving her the warmest ovation she had ever received in the States
40:35Referring back to 1925, when she first arrived in Paris, she presented a medley of her greatest hits
40:44She actually played upon her performance history in some of these performances
40:49So she would sort of do these little references to sort of the banana dance
40:55Not that she wore the banana skirt, or, you know, references to her earlier performances
41:00Those that made her, you know, the historical performance symbol that she became
41:06But while audiences lapped up the shows, critics weren't so impressed
41:11In the 60s and 70s, where she's got to make money, and she does these shows
41:20I look at these costumes, and they're quite camp
41:25There is this kind of Mardi Gras or carnival glittery look to her
41:34She could be a model for a drag queen as well
41:38And there's a sense almost slightly Judy Garland-like
41:45After a show at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, Variety magazine commented
41:52Baker's act isn't worth waiting for
41:54The performance was chaotic and disorganized
41:56An assemblage of random rambling, missed cues, and muffed lyrics
42:02Occasionally there's a glimpse of appealing good humor
42:05But her unsteadiness and self-exaggeration of her own style still overwhelms
42:14In entertainment circles, Baker was considered a has-been
42:21With age and exhaustion taking its toll
42:24Josephine suffered another heart attack and minor stroke
42:28While on tour in Copenhagen
42:33The stroke affected her memory, making it difficult to remember the lyrics to some of her most famous songs
42:42She knew she should retire, but still owing $200,000 in taxes, couldn't afford to
42:51Worse still, as the children grew up, Josephine's constant travels and frequent diva-like behaviour
42:57Saw the children distance themselves from her
43:00Her social experiment did see some success, however
43:05As the brothers and sisters remained close to and supportive of each other
43:17Hi everybody, hi!
43:19Come on, say hi to me, make me feel at home
43:21Hi!
43:23In 1974, Josephine was invited to London for the Royal Variety performance
43:28Say hi, very strong
43:31One, two, three, go!
43:33Hi!
43:33I feel at home, thank you very much
43:37So, soon
43:39While much of her performance had been reduced to singing
43:42She appeared revitalised, at last showing glimpses of a return to her best
43:50The Red Cross had already asked Josephine to perform at their gala again
43:54A special show, Josephine's story, was proposed
43:59Its success would hinge on her remembering a two-hour set, a challenge she accepted with typical gusto
44:07Wala!
44:11She wanted to take the show to Paris
44:13The problem was, no theatre was prepared to take a punt on the aerial performance
44:21Finally, Paris' modest Bobino theatre agreed to stage the retitled Josephine
44:34On the 8th of April, 1975
44:38Fifty years after her arrival in France
44:41Josephine stepped on stage
44:44And Paris went wild
44:47The older Parisians wept tears of nostalgia
44:51While younger Parisians, who knew nothing of Josephine, were astounded by her performance
44:59Suddenly, Josephine Baker was the talk of the city again
45:04London and New York immediately sent word they wanted to book the show
45:08And tickets at the Bobino sold out for months in advance
45:14After years of struggle, it seemed at last Josephine had staged the ultimate comeback
45:26Following the performance, Josephine enjoyed a triumphant night on the town
45:30Before retiring to her rented Paris apartment
45:36The following morning, she slept much later than usual
45:40She woke up, had a midday bite to eat and made some calls
45:45Before lying down again for an afternoon nap
45:50At 5pm, a friend went to wake her for an interview
45:57She found Josephine stretched out, motionless on the bed
46:02With newspapers and theatre reviews strewn around her
46:07Josephine had suffered another stroke
46:10And had slipped into a coma
46:12From which she would never regain consciousness
46:17She was taken to a Paris hospital
46:19Where at 5am, on Saturday the 12th of April, 1975
46:24With Princess Grace at her bedside
46:27Josephine Baker finally slipped away
46:31She was 68
46:39There's a fabulous picture of her funeral procession going by
46:43The actual theatre that still has her name
46:46And I think that's very, it's like bittersweet almost
46:48That she died while performing
46:54Through thick and thin, she was going to perform
46:56And she was going to give, give her all
47:01As a decorated war hero, Josephine was given a full-scale military funeral
47:0820,000 people congregated inside and outside the church to pay their respects
47:20Former husband, Joe Bouillon, together with their adopted children
47:24Were amongst the mourners
47:29Following the funeral, a memorial was held in Monaco
47:33Where she was finally laid to rest
47:36Her trusted friend, Princess Grace, paid for her gravestone
47:42Justine Baker is definitely a cultural icon
47:44A waist, a bottom sticking out
47:47And a few bananas
47:48And it's instantly recognizable
47:51It's iconic
47:52Somebody who was able to blur
47:56These boundaries
47:57Black, white, French singing, African-American jazz dancing
48:01Crossing over those boundaries in a way that was very edgy
48:06And uncomfortable at the time
48:09But she managed to do it
48:10If you think about everything she did
48:12And the type of influence she had
48:16In sort of the world
48:18You know, she was the first black superstar
48:20She was the first black female international dancer, performer
48:28Interviewed in 1975
48:31Shortly before her death
48:33She modestly proclaimed
48:35I have never really been a great artist
48:39I have been a human being that has loved art
48:42Which is not the same thing
48:45But I have loved and believed in art
48:48And the idea of universal brotherhood so much
48:52That I have put everything I have into them
48:55And I have been blessed
49:16And I have been blessed
49:16She became a female
49:17To have everything I have to pass
49:32I can't believe that
49:34You may need a painting
49:34But you may need a painting
49:34To have a painting
49:37And the painting
49:37Quite a painting
49:45A CIDADE NO BRASIL