Josephine Baker in Follies

Khara Hanlon

December 5, 2012

You may remember this photo from our September 2007 issue’s 80 Momentous Moments in Dance story. This is Josephine Baker. Her moment on our timeline was: “After taking Paris by storm, Josephine Baker returns to the U.S. and appears in the 1936 edition of Ziegfeld Follies.”

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