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Josephine Baker among those featured in the 42-cent stamps released last week. The new 42-cent Vintage Black Cinema postage stamps. WASHINGTON -- Josephine Baker looks straight at you with bright eyes and shining smile, fearless and demanding attention. The time is 1935, and the St. Louis native who transfixed France and much of Europe with song and dance stares out from a poster advertising the film “Princess Tam-Tam.” Baker starred as a simple African woman presented to Paris society as royalty. Baker's movie is one of five recalled on a set of U.S. postage stamps released last week to honor vintage black cinema. Ceremonies marking the sale of the stamps were held at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, which is holding a black film festival. “So many things happened in her life that she had never expected,” her son Jean-Claude... [read full story]
