Josephine Baker has been Referenced by...
Films — Live-Action
- Has a romance with Frida Kahlo in Frida.
- Appears as a character in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
Live-Action TV
- A Different World: Whitley does a tribute to Josephine Baker in a telethon but it falls apart when her male dance partners begin fighting over her.
Music
- Beyoncé once wore a banana skirt during a duet with Jay-Z.
- Al Stewart wrote a song about her.
Western Animation
- Appears in Il Était Une Fois... in the episode of the first half of the 20th century.
- Also dances in the street in Anastasia.
- She is seen among the performing acts in the black-and-white segment that opens The Triplets of Belleville. Her dance excites the males in the audience so much that they turn into apes who try to grab the bananas on her skirt.
- An animated pony version of her is featured in a nightclub scene in the episode "Dungeons & Discords" of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
