0:00:00.000 | 0:00:03.229 | the facts concerning the latest knows early years states |
0:00:03.450 | 0:00:08.510 | she was born at the turn of the century in chattanooga tennessee she came from a musical family |
0:00:08.589 | 0:00:13.719 | her mother talking later two sisters and brothers sing and dance and placed several instruments |
0:00:13.749 | 0:00:22.999 | the letter was by far the most talented of the cynics she to play the cello based violent guitar and terre haute courting clarinet saxophone |
0:00:23.000 | 0:00:23.960 | and trial |
0:00:24.199 | 0:00:27.539 | by the age of eighteen she has established herself as a book with us |
0:00:27.539 | 0:00:30.119 | dancer and trumpet player throughout America |
0:00:30.329 | 0:00:33.898 | she also works for a small band which rose to stardom |
0:00:33.960 | 0:00:44.809 | one such family is led by we encounter base the the in nineteen forty seven the for whom the chocolate candies a musical but you did like a noble system |
0:00:44.820 | 0:00:50.119 | the show was a failure only the latest in a newcomer named josephine baker to see peace in |
0:00:50.119 | 0:00:52.218 | they remained close friends for years |
0:00:52.219 | 0:00:56.449 | in nineteen twenty six she followed they continue our and was placards |
0:00:56.450 | 0:01:00.170 | but arrested actors who had a friend in the world with the test arctic |
0:01:00.170 | 0:01:02.079 | led by former jack Carter |
0:01:02.820 | 0:01:05.099 | I think that |
0:01:05.099 | 0:01:08.998 | the reason that she did not develop the kind of up |
0:01:09.770 | 0:01:11.809 | sort of myths that surround them |
0:01:11.809 | 0:01:13.709 | other entertainers like %uh |
0:01:14.819 | 0:01:19.468 | we armstrong rough waters of was or josephine baker for that matter |
0:01:19.520 | 0:01:21.529 | %uh was because she |
0:01:21.950 | 0:01:26.989 | essentially from the nineteen eighty nineteen twenties to around nineteen forty |
0:01:27.200 | 0:01:36.109 | of more or less of expatriate it herself not entirely because she did come back to this country but by and large each word to follow |
0:01:36.190 | 0:01:38.959 | the far eastern she toured of Russia |
0:01:38.959 | 0:01:41.498 | and ran with the international sets |
0:01:41.709 | 0:01:43.998 | and was a of up |
0:01:43.999 | 0:01:47.019 | of head of European royalty when they would do |
0:01:47.020 | 0:02:00.449 | hang out in places like wrangling more per month the rafters hotel that not with a little return to America her career took a major turn when she joined the broadway production of rhapsody in blue eyes darted waters |
0:02:00.449 | 0:02:03.868 | I to me that party |
0:02:04.040 | 0:02:07.529 | and I still love on the marquee the waters |
0:02:07.580 | 0:02:10.400 | the latest no meals brothers |
0:02:10.699 | 0:02:13.959 | the very premise I think he does a great show |
0:02:14.279 | 0:02:15.469 | so we buy it |
0:02:16.659 | 0:02:19.479 | that meant to keep going to see to it that much |
0:02:20.199 | 0:02:21.279 | and I was King |
0:02:21.989 | 0:02:24.139 | okay |
0:02:25.509 | 0:02:28.399 | what about this she talking site |
0:02:28.400 | 0:02:30.459 | she everything |
0:02:31.319 | 0:02:33.329 | and it was we would like to lose |
0:02:33.929 | 0:02:35.309 | they expect in the future |
0:02:35.399 | 0:02:37.719 | people wanted didn't like anybody |
0:02:37.720 | 0:02:39.520 | who got a bigger in a she does |
0:02:40.449 | 0:02:42.539 | the you continue for many years |
0:02:42.539 | 0:02:44.969 | and related back across the atlantic to people |
0:02:44.970 | 0:02:47.440 | John are we to production a black jurors |
0:02:47.440 | 0:02:49.290 | the show was a big success |
0:02:49.290 | 0:02:52.390 | critics and musicians alike were crazy about the latest to go |
0:02:52.469 | 0:02:55.709 | does he have to do to handle we of the trial |
0:02:55.709 | 0:02:57.048 | frankly I don't know if things |
0:02:57.049 | 0:03:03.169 | and so for the members let us know that clearly I was lucky when I was a very young man to meet her |
0:03:03.539 | 0:03:07.169 | and she was due to rule that she said the players |
0:03:07.169 | 0:03:09.139 | and then at the end of one of the songs |
0:03:09.269 | 0:03:10.799 | possibly keep up with them |
0:03:10.800 | 0:03:12.439 | hello |
0:03:12.440 | 0:03:13.780 | i'll senate |
0:03:15.749 | 0:03:18.379 | hashing that front with a the right |
0:03:18.399 | 0:03:19.699 | when we are |
0:03:20.629 | 0:03:23.258 | it does almost shocking the airplane |
0:03:23.259 | 0:03:26.559 | can I just point out that this the break |
0:03:27.219 | 0:03:30.379 | the power to the people in show business back in those days |
0:03:30.379 | 0:03:32.069 | we're great great stars |
0:03:32.309 | 0:03:34.719 | she played that part to the hilt |
0:03:35.049 | 0:03:36.329 | I mean she had a of |
0:03:37.419 | 0:03:39.699 | all European car an open car |
0:03:40.559 | 0:03:41.399 | and %uh |
0:03:41.399 | 0:03:43.799 | she asked if the plan and the driver |
0:03:44.199 | 0:03:45.939 | and she appeared monkey |
0:03:46.349 | 0:03:51.079 | and they're all just exactly like the driver the for than what people ought to lie |
0:03:51.269 | 0:03:54.469 | she took great pride in new england warrant things |
0:03:54.489 | 0:03:55.979 | she's back and forth |
0:03:56.039 | 0:03:59.189 | from Europe to new York over and over and over again |
0:03:59.339 | 0:04:00.759 | as she shopped |
0:04:01.619 | 0:04:03.689 | the community in show business that is |
0:04:05.759 | 0:04:07.689 | I think the nineteen-year-old |
0:04:07.799 | 0:04:08.769 | young man |
0:04:08.770 | 0:04:11.079 | which was quite shocking back in students |
0:04:11.339 | 0:04:14.719 | oh she married a man who was a very famous performer |
0:04:14.869 | 0:04:17.569 | the part of a group called the very brothers |
0:04:19.099 | 0:04:21.658 | using the term shocking putting it mildly |
0:04:21.659 | 0:04:33.379 | America and I was very what started series of kind of nations that will haunt the marriage until the the fact that the young man laughed this famous and financially successful go back to work with the latest didn't see too well with this fall |
0:04:33.799 | 0:04:37.429 | the latest could never have anticipated the legal persecution she would face |
0:04:37.539 | 0:04:39.299 | moreover fascinating sock a |
0:04:39.299 | 0:04:40.379 | when we return |
0:04:43.439 | 0:04:46.439 | welcome back to American legacy a television star |
0:04:46.440 | 0:04:54.549 | she was hoping to trumpet but the latest on who's not surrounded by loyal subjects the merits a nineteen-year-old and that's very of the famed very presence |
0:04:54.549 | 0:04:56.149 | created constant controversy |
0:04:56.149 | 0:04:58.719 | his father did everything in his power to in the matter |
0:04:59.209 | 0:05:00.509 | right |
0:05:00.609 | 0:05:01.729 | I saw it up |
0:05:01.919 | 0:05:04.889 | was that in Chicago to grant a race |
0:05:05.099 | 0:05:06.989 | remember the night wore on video |
0:05:08.339 | 0:05:12.689 | and that canonize was also going to get nixon |
0:05:13.129 | 0:05:16.799 | and to protect a a member of the night we do not live |
0:05:17.439 | 0:05:20.529 | and whenever they would interview and in that case |
0:05:22.469 | 0:05:25.079 | what do they think that way up age |
0:05:25.079 | 0:05:26.939 | because this is a great moment |
0:05:29.229 | 0:05:31.309 | she says learned that |
0:05:31.339 | 0:05:32.809 | just like anybody |
0:05:33.069 | 0:05:35.519 | she had class she everything |
0:05:35.689 | 0:05:39.099 | so what would be criticized as just because of age |
0:05:41.739 | 0:05:43.749 | but criticized needed |
0:05:43.750 | 0:05:48.630 | later a young those who stayed on the road hoping to avoid the onslaught see what success |
0:05:48.709 | 0:05:51.078 | well it wasn't arrested on the charges |
0:05:51.079 | 0:06:00.299 | he came at the brown the case and we have to whom she had been reason that fourteen years earlier appeared on the scene claim they were never profited |
0:06:00.409 | 0:06:03.289 | the letter was arrested about a case for months |
0:06:03.289 | 0:06:05.609 | and so she was able to prove his innocence |
0:06:05.719 | 0:06:07.409 | the strain on the merits took its toll |
0:06:07.409 | 0:06:08.279 | and they broke up |
0:06:08.279 | 0:06:13.609 | only a handful parents soon we established the collections with the international said |
0:06:13.659 | 0:06:17.149 | after a command performance before queen will mean a of the netherlands |
0:06:17.149 | 0:06:19.289 | she was given of gold places |
0:06:19.479 | 0:06:21.239 | things were beginning to look up |
0:06:21.469 | 0:06:22.599 | she even |
0:06:22.599 | 0:06:23.889 | which movie |
0:06:25.009 | 0:06:26.659 | and when times were good |
0:06:26.699 | 0:06:28.019 | there's action |
0:06:31.229 | 0:06:32.949 | going to see her |
0:06:33.139 | 0:06:39.749 | she was she'd probably share not in very profound away trying to trump |
0:06:39.799 | 0:06:43.269 | so ordinary person one trumpet player |
0:06:43.879 | 0:06:45.499 | so are and |
0:06:45.589 | 0:06:48.149 | they paid court |
0:06:49.599 | 0:06:51.159 | you can hear me |
0:06:53.129 | 0:06:55.459 | discuss and a weekend |
0:06:55.459 | 0:06:58.829 | I worked on her work together |
0:06:58.839 | 0:06:59.939 | Clinton |
0:07:00.449 | 0:07:04.959 | while working with marie sure that the her friend and French resistance fighter josephine baker |
0:07:04.959 | 0:07:15.189 | try to want a little of the nazis planned invasion of France she won a political back to America but instead she traveled to denmark ironically this was the first of three countries to fall to the nazis |
0:07:15.190 | 0:07:16.659 | the latest lot and one half |
0:07:16.659 | 0:07:20.938 | and for eighteen months she was the only black Americans German prisoner of war can |
0:07:20.939 | 0:07:22.029 | she was released |
0:07:22.029 | 0:07:24.868 | the prisoner exchange in return for American media |
0:07:24.869 | 0:07:27.259 | and we only sixty five |
0:07:27.260 | 0:07:30.580 | venus of our that she was the latest in return to the stand |
0:07:30.699 | 0:07:34.539 | she married her friend more relentless and try to regain star |
0:07:34.819 | 0:07:38.239 | Childers is a very very peculiar kind of business in the week they don't |
0:07:38.239 | 0:07:39.039 | often |
0:07:39.399 | 0:07:43.169 | a number of people who go out of our lives as she chose live in Europe |
0:07:43.659 | 0:07:45.359 | and did did did not leave |
0:07:46.179 | 0:07:50.369 | a great collection of american-made recordings leaders |
0:07:51.049 | 0:07:52.158 | listen |
0:07:52.159 | 0:07:53.489 | objection |
0:07:55.569 | 0:07:56.609 | right |
0:07:57.259 | 0:07:59.308 | we |
0:07:59.309 | 0:08:01.899 | the constitution interaction |
0:08:02.289 | 0:08:03.979 | you're damn right |
0:08:05.199 | 0:08:07.539 | what happens with many many many |
0:08:07.540 | 0:08:08.599 | the detainees |
0:08:09.529 | 0:08:10.849 | this some |
0:08:10.949 | 0:08:13.179 | who have always great talent |
0:08:13.319 | 0:08:15.789 | and with the way things should be |
0:08:15.789 | 0:08:17.499 | and you find another one |
0:08:17.709 | 0:08:21.298 | who has as much talent they become a great stuff |
0:08:21.509 | 0:08:23.309 | I don't know |
0:08:23.759 | 0:08:25.249 | and you know |
0:08:29.839 | 0:08:34.968 | this confident charismatic oh yes controversial in attendance also a cerebral hemorrhage |
0:08:34.970 | 0:08:43.619 | well she was falling at the palace theater in new York on may thirtieth nineteen fifty six she got a few days later and was buried on her birthday |