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Cotton Comes to Harlem - Episode 243

Black on Black Cinema - Black Movie Reviews

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The Best Josephine Baker Dance Scene Ever

"It was weird, because then Calhoun, the white criminal, he's there in blackface and then O'Malley comes and grabs him and throws him on stage," she says. "I didn't understand why he was trying to pretend to be a black person? Because it was pretty obvious that wasn't a black person." She adds: "This is the worst Josephine Baker, like, dance scene I've ever seen that sound like, you know, fake banana dance?"

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