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Meet Josephine Baker – Portrayed by Becky Stone

A Black actress in character as Josephine Baker, smiling to the camera.

Her given name was Freda Josephine McDonald. Her nickname was “Tumpy.” At 13, Tumpy left home to be in the theatre. By the time she was 19, she was a veteran of the stage, twice married and the star both of the stage and of high society in Paris. She kept the last name of her second husband, Billy Baker. She had become Josephine Baker.

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