Josephine Baker - You’re Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) 1931 Slideshow

Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 -- April 12, 1975) was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. Nicknamed the “Bronze Venus,“ the “Black Pearl,“ and even the “Créole Goddess“ in anglophone nations. Born in East St. Louis, Illinois. Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, where the family was living, Josephine Baker ran away a few years later at age thirteen and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925, Josephine Baker went to Paris