Photos: Remembering Josephine Baker
FILE - Performer Josephine Baker strikes a pose during her Ziegfeld Follies performance of "The Conga" on the Winter Garden Theater stage in New York, Feb. 11, 1936. France is inducting Josephine Baker – Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French Resistance fighter and civil rights leader – into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France's most revered luminaries. (AP Photo, File)
French cabaret star Josephine Baker models a glamorous dress during a private preview of the gowns and hats she will wear when she tours with E.N.S.A. shortly, at Jean Dresses, her dressmakers in Paris, France, in March 1945. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)
Singer Josephine Baker poses in her dressing room at the Strand Theater in New York City on March 6, 1961. Baker is co-starring with French orchestra leader and husband, Jo Bouillion. Her last appearance in New York was 1937 in "The Ziegfeld Follies." (AP Photo)
FILE - In this file photo dated May 27, 1957, Entertainer Josephine Baker holds a rhinestone-studded microphone as she performs during her show "Paris, mes Amours" at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris, France. The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday Aug. 22, 2021, that French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to bestow the honor. Josephine Baker is a World War II hero in France and will be the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. (AP Photo/File)
Josephine Baker shows a basket of toys, as she arrived at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France, on March 5, 1956. (AP Photo)
Dancer and singer Josephine Baker poses wearing a top hat, white tie and tails in this publicity photo as the bandleader in her review "La Joie de Paris" at the Casino de Paris, France, in December 1932. (AP Photo)
Josephine Baker sings on the opening night of her new night club on Dec. 31, 1955, at the Chateau des Milandes in central France. Baker and her musician husband Jo Bouillon have opened a nightclub in their home, where they also live with their adopted children. (AP Photo/Pierre Godot)
Josephine Baker selecting toy animals for her six adopted children at Frankfurt's Rhein Main Airport, during a stop over as she returned from Berlin to Paris, on Aug. 4, 1954. (AP Photo)
Josephine Baker with patients at a American hospital in Paris, France, where she sang for French soldiers on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939. (AP Photo)
Well known American singer and dancer, Josephine Baker, who was in Berlin to play a leading role in a German film, on Aug. 3, 1954, was hostess to children, whom she treated with chocolate and cake at the West Berlin zoo restaurant. Josephine herself preferred Pilsner beer. Photo shows Josephine taking a big sip of ice cold Pilsner with a little boy on her left looking somewhat surprised. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden Jr.)
Performer Josephine Baker on stage at the Filmball in Mainz, Germany, on Feb. 1, 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Hillebrecht)
Performer Josephine Baker on stage at the Filmball in Mainz, Germany, on Feb. 1, 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Hillebrecht)
Performer Josephine Baker on stage at the Filmball in Mainz, Germany, on Feb. 1, 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Hillebrecht)
Josephine Baker, aged 64, at the Madame Ball in Munich, Germany, around Jan. 8, 1971, not only singing but also dancing the Charleston in front of her enthralled guests. (AP Photo/Claus Hampel)
Josephine Baker performs on the floor of the cabaret she and husband Jo Bouillon opened at the Chateau des Milandes in central France on New Year's Eve. Photo likely dated Dec. 31, 1955. (AP Photo/Pierre Godot)
French cabaret star Josephine Baker arrives at London Airport from Milan on Feb. 28, 1963, to perform at the opening of two restaurants in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Miss Baker who has 11 adopted children is accepting no fee. (AP Photo/Victor Boynton)
FILE - Charlie Chaplin congratulates entertainer Josephine Baker after her performance at the charity gala "Le Bal des Petits Lits Blancs," at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, on May 20, 1953. France is inducting Josephine Baker – Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French Resistance fighter and civil rights leader – into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France's most revered luminaries. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Josephine Baker with patients at a American hospital in Paris, France, where she sang for French soldiers on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939. France is inducting Josephine Baker – Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French Resistance fighter and civil rights leader – into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France's most revered luminaries. (AP Photo, File)
FILE- Actress Josephine Baker in her apartment at the Hotel Forresta near Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 7, 1957, with three of her adopted children, Marianne, left, Koffi, center, and Brahim. France is inducting Josephine Baker – Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French Resistance fighter and civil rights leader – into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France's most revered luminaries. (AP Photo, File)
The voice of Josephine Baker will resonate Tuesday in front of the Pantheon in Paris, where she is to symbolically be inducted — becoming the first Black woman to receive France's highest honor.