Celebrity Spies, Part 3/3 - The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxième Bureau
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MUSIC Paris - The Story of a Young Woman
Josephine was married off to a man of 30 when she was just 13 years old. The marriage didn't last, the couple split after Josephine attacked her husband with a beer bottle. She became a chorus girl, performing in small dive bars before moving to Philadelphia and New York. Working as a dancer, Josephine caught the eye of an impresario named Caroline Dudley Reagan who convinced her to come to Paris for a new show. Age 19, Josephine embarked on the transatlantic voyage to the country that would become her adopted home. In 1924, she moved to New York, and it's here, while living in Harlem, that her career started to take off. But once again
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