Dance in Film · 1931
Miss Josephine Baker (1931)
This British Pathé Stars short preserves Josephine Baker addressing Paris directly, showing how her Jazz Age screen presence fused song, facial play, poised gesture, and rhythmic bodily phrasing even when the turn is not a sustained dance number.
Miss Josephine Baker is a 1931 dance film centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: The complete British Pathé archive short was available free on the rights-holder's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMvS9BGQdHY and embedded on LODance's Josephine Baker Legend page on 2026-08-08; British Pathé also states that its complete archive is viewable free on its website.
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The dance sequences in Miss Josephine Baker
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Paris praise performance
Danced by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker kneeling in an evening gown and singing a brief word of praise for Paris.
NO DANCE CONTENT FOUND
The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. Exact-work coverage and the British Pathé description identify a brief sung praise for Paris, not a sustained dance routine. The official British Pathé full short remains indexed on YouTube, but direct playback could not be reopened during this validation, so clip_url and deep_link_url are blank.
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