Show Girls: Josephine Baker

I was completely remiss when doing my show girls research because I forgot about the one and only Josephine Baker. Below I've posted a few videos of Baker, including her infamous "banana skirt" dance. What is a clear commonality amongst the videos is her showmanship. She took something as simple as gratuitous hip wiggling, booty popping, & pelvic thrusting (a dance known today more commonly as twerking), and turned it into a grand stage show. (This is actually just like someone else we know.)

Without further ado, Josephine Baker...