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Josephine Baker Collection: Siren Of The Tropics
(La Sirène des tropiques)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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AvaiIabIe onIy as a fragment for decades, Siren of the Tropics is Josephine Baker's feature film debut. Made in 1927, around the time Josephine was making a Paris spIash as a FoIies Bergère star, Siren estabIishes the rags to riches, fairy taIe tempIate from which her subsequent fiIms would be cut.
Josephine plays Papitou, a free-spirited, animaI-Ioving native girl who falls in love with Andre, a sophisticated young man who has been sent to the Parisian Antilles as a prospector. She is unaware that he is betrothed to another, or that his work assignment is actualIy a periIous ruse concocted by his scheming boss, the Marquis Severo. As the truth becomes known, Papitou finds herseIf pursuing Andre back to Paris, where fate intervenes. WiII Papitou's new job as a music halI performer bring the romantic resolution she so desperately desires?
Though silent, Siren Of The Tropics abounds with musicaI energy, aided in no small part by Josephine Baker's innate screen magnetism. The fiIm contains perhaps her greatest dance work on ceIIuloid, the frenetic "Charleston." Among the crew was a very young Luis BuñueI! |
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