Shuffle Along
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Shuffle Along is a musical composed by Eubie Blake, with lyrics by Noble Sissle and a book written by the comedy duo Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles. One of the most popular all-Black hit Broadway sh
Sheet music for "Love Will Find a Way", a song from the show
Photo of the cast and crew, early 1920s
I'm Just Wild About Harry sheet music cover
Josephine Baker
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Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, and a spy for the French Resistance. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly i
Shuffle Along
…premiered at the 63rd Street Music Hall in 1921, running for 504 performances, a remarkably successful span for that decade. It launched the careers of Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, Fredi Washington and Paul Robeson, and was so popular it caused "curtain time traffic jams" on West 63rd Street. A 2016…
Baker in 1940
Unconfirmed photo of Baker, c. 1908
Josephine Baker impersonating Hudgins in the Folies Bergère in 1927.
Josephine Baker, wearing only a feathered skirt and anklets, shoes, and a headdress, arches back over the forward-bent fr:Joe Alex in La Danse sauvage.