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Essay / Essay on Josephine Baker - 894
She loved animals and once owned a leopard, a chimpanzee, a pig, a snake, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats and seven dogs. His career flourished in integrated Parisian society; When La Revue Nègre closed, Joséphine played in La Folie du Jour at the Théâtre des Follies-Bergère. Her jaw-dropping performance, including a costume of 16 bananas strung into a skirt, earned her celebrity status. Joséphine, in 1927, earned more than any entertainer in Europe. She starred in two films in the early 1930s, Zou-Zou and Princesse Tam-Tam, and moved her family from Saint-Louis to Milandes, her estate to Castelnaud-Fayrac.,