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Murray Korman - "Orgies of the Vampires, A Fantasie Unique," c. 1930 

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Zorita by Murray Korman

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Josephine Baker (30) in New York to promote appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies, Photo by Murray Korman, 1936.

National Portrait Galley, London.

The photo session dates from 1936 and was taken in New York to promote Bakers appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies - the first and last black star ever to do so. Josephine appeared in three segments, dancing and then singing. This photo illustrates the third segment of her appearance where she performed the song “Five a.m.” by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin and was choreographed by Georges Balanchine. The outfits were designed by Vincent Minelli, and this dress was gold in colour. Baker is depicted here with her dancers in the “Five a.m.” segment. (ref p100 Josephine Baker, by Hammond & O’Connor 1988 and p168 Jazz Cleopatra by Phyllis Rose). 

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A portrait of pre-fame Lauren Bacall at age eighteen shot by Broadway theatrical photographer Murray Korman in New York, 1942. Bacall, then known as Betty Joan Perske, had aspirations to be a stage star at this point and made her acting debut in a walk-on part in the play Johnny 2 X 4 earlier that year. She was also crowned “Miss Greenwich Village” in 1942, and the following year was discovered by fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland (via an introduction from Harper's Bazaar editor Nicolas de Gunzburg), which led to her appearing on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in March of 1943. After film director Howard Hawks’ wife Slim Hawks spotted Bacall in a fashion magazine and recommended her to her husband, she was signed by Hawks (who changed her name, with the newly christened Lauren choosing “Bacall”, a variation of her mother’s maiden name “Weinstein-Bacal”, to replace Perske), and she made her film debut opposite her eventual first husband Humphrey Bogart in the Howard Hawks drama To Have or Have Not in 1944.

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 Murray Korman: Joséphine Baker

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Stage and revue dancer Della Carroll, photographed by Murray Korman, 1939

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Murray Korman

Joséphine Baker in New York

circa 1930