WOW! Al Stewart has an apolitical song about his love for her talent and stage presence, called appropriately, “Josephine Baker”. Too bad that she, like the majority of “entertainers” today, was swept away by Communist propaganda.
You can bet they won’t be making a doodle of Bella Dodd to celebrate the 110th anniversary of her birth next year.
... if only she’d stayed a dyed in the wool commie to the end she’d be loved and not largely forgotten....
Wasn’t Paul Robeson, the great baritone, also a communist sympathizer?