Date 10 March 2022
Pages 334
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 21.00
EAN 9782752912794
Publisher Website www.editionsphebus.fr

Memoirs

Publisher Phébus
Category Art
Christine Bonnard Legrand, Foreign Rights Manager "As Josephine Baker enters the Panthéon, these interviews show how formidably modern this iconic figure was, and how brave the battles she fought."

A series of interviews from 1926 to 1949, now arranged in 10 stately chapters: impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri; debuts in the Revue Nègre; anecdotes of world tours and memories of foreign countries; opening her own cabaret on Rue Fontaine, where Rita Hayworth came to see her; encounters with Édith Piaf, Colette, and Sacha Guitry; filming with Jean Gabin; her time in the French Resistance; recurrent health issues; and her keen awareness of poverty and social and racial inequality.
These firsthand accounts brim with Baker's joie de vivre, cheek, and devastating humor. She shares her recipe for anti-wrinkle banana cream and extols the lucky rabbit's fpot she's had all her life.

  • Sales in France 8,000 copies
  • Rights Sold United-Kingdom, USA, Italy, Czech Republic
  • Adaptations Adaptation underway for a biopic series on Netflix (2024)
  • As of: September 2022