Paris Was a Woman (1996)

★ 6.4 1h 15m 7 votes IMDb
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Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

Paris Was a Woman

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Cast

Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson as Narrator (voice) Age 69 · Essex, England, UK From Wikipedia Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen..
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin as Self (archive footage) Died 1956 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker as Self (archive footage) Died 1975 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her car...
Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry as Self (archive footage) Died 1945 · Sète, France
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney as Self (archive footage) Died 1972 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
Colette
Colette as Self (archive footage) Died 1954 · Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France Colette's fame extends to being probably the only female writer known by her mononym—She is always and only Colette, though in fact this most feminine of names was her surname: She was born Sidonie-Ga...
Director Greta Schiller
Cast Juliet Stevenson, Shari Benstock, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Janet Flanner, Samuel Steward, Marie Laurencin, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Gisèle Freund

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