FKA Twigs is in negotiations to star as Josephine Baker, the pioneering American-born French entertainer, in a biopic ...

Back in 1991, Baker’s life was adapted into a film for specifically formatted for television by HBO. The Josephine Baker Story starred Lynn Whitfield (as Baker), Rubén Blades (as Count Giuseppe Pepito ...

Singer and actor FKA Twigs is set to star as Josephine Baker in a new biopic telling the story of the iconic French-American ...

Josephine Baker is seen as a pivotal figure both for representation in cinema and the civil rights movement. American born, but spending most of her life in Paris, she performed in the music halls ...

Mack, Omar Apollo and, of course, Twigs, who didn’t hesitate to respond ... Haile Selassie—it was the 1920s dancer Josephine Baker who informed tonight’s look: a deco, feather-trimmed ...

Born in segregated Missouri in 1906, Baker was, by the time she fled to Paris ... “The perfect ingredient to all great artists is an element of ‘stink’,” FKA Twigs adds. “That’s what Josephine had: an ...

Grammy-nominated artist FKA Twigs is in negotiations to star as Josephine Baker, the pioneering American-born French dancer, singer and actor, in a biopic which will be directed by Maimouna ...