{"id":33127,"date":"2013-08-24T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33127"},"modified":"2013-08-24T20:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:43:59","slug":"wilder-than-her-pet-cheetah-the-sex-mad-black-venus-who-outwitted-the-nazis-remarkable-story-of-josephine-baker-as-rihanna-is-set-to-play-legendary-seductress-in-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33127","title":{"rendered":"Wilder than her pet cheetah, the sex-mad Black Venus who outwitted the Nazis: Remarkable story of Josephine Baker as Rihanna is set to play legendary seductress in biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2400416\/Rihanna-set-play-Josephine-Baker-biopic-legendary-seductress.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wilder than her pet cheetah, the sex-mad Black Venus who outwitted the Nazis: Remarkable story of Josephine Baker as Rihanna is set to play legendary seductress in biopic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annabel Venning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under scorching stage-lights, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josephine_Baker\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker<\/a> stepped out in front of the audience entirely naked, but for a few strategically-placed flamingo-feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Her male dance partner carried her upside down, her long, slender legs stretched out in the splits.<\/p>\n<p>He set her down, and she began to dance. As the light played on her coffee-brown skin, her body seemed to become almost molten as she wound herself around her partner.<\/p>\n<p>She was, she later recalled, lost in the eroticism of the moment, \u2018intoxicated .\u2009.\u2009. driven by dark forces I didn\u2019t recognise,\u2019 as she writhed seductively before shuddering to a climactic halt.<\/p>\n<p>For a few moments the Paris audience remained silent, as if stunned. Then they rose to their feet as one and erupted in ecstatic applause.<\/p>\n<p>She was hailed as the \u2018Black Venus\u2019. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pablo_Picasso\" target=\"_blank\">Picasso<\/a> dubbed her the \u2018Nefertiti of now\u2019. Author Ernest Hemingway called her \u2018the most sensational woman anyone ever saw\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was the start of an extraordinary career.\u00a0 Josephine Baker, the girl from the St Louis ghetto, rose to become one of the greatest divas ever, an icon of the Jazz Age, talented and glamorous, but also decadent and amoral.<\/p>\n<p>Today, all that many people remember of her is that she danced naked except for her famous tutu made of (fake) bananas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2400416\/Rihanna-set-play-Josephine-Baker-biopic-legendary-seductress.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilder than her pet cheetah, the sex-mad Black Venus who outwitted the Nazis: Remarkable story of Josephine Baker as Rihanna is set to play legendary seductress in biopic The Daily Mail 2013-08-22 Annabel Venning Under scorching stage-lights, Josephine Baker stepped out in front of the audience entirely naked, but for a few strategically-placed flamingo-feathers. 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