What entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent stared in Princess Tam Tam?
Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue "Un Vent de Folie" in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s.
Jean-Pierre Marielle Jean-Pierre Marielle (born 12 April 1932) is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred films in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen ("Les Galettes de Pont-Aven"), to the serial killer ("Sans mobile apparent"), to the World War II hero ("Les Milles"), to the compromised spy (""), to the has-been actor ("Les Grands Ducs"), to his portrayal of Jacques Saunière in ("The Da Vinci Code (film) ", acting always with the same excellence whatever the quality of the movie in itself. He is well known for his outspokenness and especially for his warm and cavernous voice which is often imitated by French humorists considering him as the archetype of the French gentleman.