
Josephine Baker
You're Dead to Me
Is She Sexy or Hot?
She's sexy, she's beautiful, but there's also a comic performance there. How many actresses do we have who pull off both of those things? Cause, to day, they intend to prize hollywood actors for being either funny or hot. If they are hot enough, we'll pretend that they're funny. And i think you see a lot of that around the kind of construction of the banana skirt debus in 19 26 at the foli a boger. She creates a lot of tension in terms of how you're supposed to fel about black bodiesa about black ture.
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