Princess Tam Tam - IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room - June 2021

On June 1, 2021, IU Cinema presented a virtual screening of Princess Tam Tam with a virtual film introduction from IU Black Film Center/Archive Director Dr. Terri Francis. The event was part of IU Cinema's Virtual Screening Room initiative, which launched in March 2020 amid the Cinema's closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 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. In French with English subtitles.

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