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Sep 26
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161. Josephine Baker - Resistance Fighte...

Katie Charlwood
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COME SEE ME LIVE IN LONDON THS NOVEMBER!


Josephine Baker had a life so full it could not be contained by one episode alone! In this eoisode Josephine deals with duals, death, international tours, another marrige, and nazis. But how exactly does one from, the highest paid movie star of the era to becoming a French Resistance spy!?


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