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Josephine Baker at Red Cross Gala in Monte Carlo
Josephine Baker 1973

Josephine Baker 1973

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About 1973, as she was staging yet another comeback, Josephine Baker performed for the Red Cross Gala in Monte Carlo. Baker had worked with the Red Cross during World War II, when France, where she had taken citizenship in the 1920s, was taken over by the Nazis.

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