Round 9: Tossup 16

Alexander Calder’s many wire portraits of this performer include one as an “Aztec.” Adolf Loos designed an unbuilt house for this performer, whose speech at the March on Washington inspired the title of Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America. A song by this performer plays during several of Mory and Anta’s motorcycle and car rides in Touki Bouki. This star of the films Zouzou and Siren of the Tropics and singer of (15[1])(*) “J’ai deux amours” (“zhay duh zah-MOOR”) often performed with Chiquita, a pet cheetah. In a 1927 revue, this artist performed her “Danse Sauvage” (10[1])at the Folies Bergère in a skirt (10[1])of artificial bananas. This performer wrote notes in invisible ink or pinned them to her underwear during a period of espionage that earned her a Croix de Guerre. For 10 points, name this African-American dancer who aided the French Resistance. ■END■

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