Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Josephine Baker
- Zouzou
- (as Joséphine Baker)
Ila Mecséry
- Miss Barbara
- (as Illa Meery)
Irène Ascoua
- Zouzou enfant
- (uncredited)
Roger Blin
- Le témoin du meurtre
- (uncredited)
Floyd Du Pont
- Le maître de ballet de la revue
- (uncredited)
Geo Forster
- Un boy de la revue
- (uncredited)
Serge Grave
- Young Jean
- (uncredited)
Teddy Michaud
- Julot
- (uncredited)
Philippe Richard
- Le commissaire de police
- (uncredited)
Viviane Romance
- La jeune fille attablée
- (uncredited)
Robert Seller
- Le commanditaire
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIrène Ascoua's debut.
- Alternate versionsKino International released a video in 1989 with English subtitles. It was presented by Bernard E. Goldberg and the subtitles were written by Helen Eisenman.
- ConnectionsFeatured in It's Black Entertainment (2002)
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Bad musical comes to life when Josephine Baker takes the stage
I've long been a fan of Josephine Baker, but have never seen more than clips of her films. This is one of her most famous films, in which she co-stars with Jean Gabin. Unfortunately, it's pretty worthless. It's a musical, but it really doesn't want to be a Hollywood musical. It wants to be semi-realistic, and the songs only take place on stage, so there's only a couple of them, and they're right at the end. The first seventy minutes are ridiculous, moronically plotted, and boring. Baker and Gabin are twins, in reality two adopted children of a circus man (Pierre Larquey). When they grow up, Gabin is a sailor and Baker a laundress. Kind of. Gabin immediately isn't a sailor, but is instead an electrician working in the theater, where Baker gets accidentally discovered when the big star (Illa Meery) is acting up. Baker's secretly in love with her brother, but her co-worker (Yvette Lebon) catches his eye. Oh, and Gabin is sleeping with Meery, too, maybe. At least in one random scene. Ugh, the whole plot is a mess. And then we get to the giant musical number, which is so silly it would make Busby Berkeley laugh in derision - and that should be a hoot, but it's so over-edited that it becomes annoying. The film only comes to life when Baker is given center stage, which is not close to often enough. Even then, she's burdened with ludicrous costumes, like the one that makes her look like she has yeti fur growing out her tits. Damn, I was really looking forward to this.
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- zetes
- Feb 8, 2015
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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