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Post by spiderwort on Jun 21, 2024 19:14:22 GMT
Actress, singer, dancer, Josephine Baker was also something else that I never would have expected: during WWII, she was also a spy!
From Wikipedia: "After the war, Baker was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.[7]
"On November 30, 2021, she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France.[12] As her resting place remains in Monaco Cemetery, a cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.[13]"
What an amazing gift she was to the allies during the war.
SIDE-NOTE: There is another female movie star who worked with the resistance during WWII (before she was a movie star). I'll leave it to others to come up with that prominent name. (If you can't, I'll fill you in later.)
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Post by politicidal1 on Jun 22, 2024 2:18:03 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 22, 2024 13:05:10 GMT
Actress, singer, dancer, Josephine Baker was also something else that I never would have expected: during WWII, she was also a spy!
From Wikipedia: "After the war, Baker was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.[7]
"On November 30, 2021, she was inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honors in France.[12] As her resting place remains in Monaco Cemetery, a cenotaph was installed in vault 13 of the crypt in the Panthéon.[13]"
What an amazing gift she was to the allies during the war. [: There is another female movie star who worked with the resistance during WWII (before she was a movie star). I'll leave it to others to come up with that prominent name. (If you can't, I'll fill you in later.)
Audrey Hepburn? On the male side, actor Eddie Albert's undercover work before the U.S.'s official involvement in WWII began is pretty impressive, too; that could've been made into an interesting movie.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 22, 2024 15:01:15 GMT
Audrey Hepburn? On the male side, actor Eddie Albert's undercover work before the U.S.'s official involvement in WWII began is pretty impressive, too; that could've been made into an interesting movie.
You are right!! Audrey Hepburn, indeed. And I didn't know about Eddie Albert. I will have to research that. It's amazing how many stories there are, so many of which we probably still don't know.
Here's an article about Audrey Hepburn that explains so much about her WWII involvement. It's hard to imagine what that child must have experienced.
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 22, 2024 15:45:15 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 22, 2024 15:49:09 GMT
And what a performer she was!!
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