Princess Tam Tam (DVD)

Directed by Edmond Greville

Release Year: 1935
Running Time: 77
UPC: 7 38329 04012 3
Color Type: B&W
Country: France
Language: French w/English subt. [audio]
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Cast
Viviane Romance
Robert Arnoux
Germaine Aussey
Albert Préjean
Josephine Baker

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Directed by Edmond Greville

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Buoyed by the success of the French musical Zou Zou a year earlier, the same team created in Princess Tam Tam a Pygmalion-like comedy in which a mischievous shepherd girl rises through society to become a pretend princess and the toast of Paris nightlife.

Alwina (Josephine Baker) is discovered by a French aristocrat (Albert Prejean) while he is in Tunisia seeking inspiration for a new novel. He becomes infatuated with this innocent gamin and constructs a plot to polish her charms and bring her to Paris where he presents her to society as an Indian princess.

In a thinly-veiled parallel to Baker's own experience, Alwina becomes an exotic celebrity, a favorite subject for the city's great artists and a guest at the most important social events. Her rise to notoriety climaxes in a posh nightclub, where she is coaxed into drinking too much by her mentor's jealous wife and falls prey to the compelling tom-tom beat of the club orchestra, whereupon she leaps to the stage, strips off her shimmering evening gown and dances as only La Baker could.

In addition to this stellar musical number, Baker sings two additional songs, "Dream Ship" and "'Neath the Tropical Blue Skies."

DVD Extras Include:
  • "Josephine Baker: The Films" (2005, 18 min) Includes interviews with Lynn Whitfield (actress, The Josephine Baker Story), Margo Jefferson (New York Times theatre critic), Elizabeth Kendall (dance critic and historian) and Josephine Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude Baker.
  • Song Selections
  • Stills Gallery
  • Optional English subtitles

"Irresistible...as of today the most enchanting new film in town." -- Vincent Canby, New York Times

"Baker like you've never seen her before." - Patrick Pacheco, The New York Daily News

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