Maïmouna Doucouré is following up 2020’s “Cuties,” her Paris-set portrait of a pre-teen Senegalese immigrant who joins a dance clique, with the story of a trailblazing dancer, singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Variety reports that the French filmmaker will write and direct a Josephine Baker biopic being developed by StudioCanal.
An American-born French performer who was born in 1906 and died in 1975, Baker famously refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States. “She worked as a secret agent for the French Resistance during WWII, then supported Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, speaking at his side during his 1963 March on Washington,” the source details. The