1. Josephine Mary Premice was a Haitian-American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage.
13 Facts About Josephine Premice
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Josephine Mary Premice was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Thelomaine and Lucas Premice.
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Josephine Premice's parents were part of the Haitian aristocracy who fled Haiti; her ancestor, Napoleon Premice, was a Haitian-born Black veteran of the US Revolutionary War.
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Josephine Premice was imprisoned in Guiana for his role in the plot, and both he and a fellow prisoner to whom he was chained were forced to escape and flee through the woods to friends that awaited them on the coast.
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Josephine Premice was brought to France, where he learned to cut fur for the couturiers.
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Josephine Premice eventually immigrated to New York in the early 1920s.
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Josephine Premice made her Broadway debut in a 1945 revue show called Blue Holiday.
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Josephine Premice was in the pre-Broadway cast of the musical House of Flowers with Diahann Carroll and Pearl Bailey.
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Josephine Premice was nominated for a Tony Award for her work in the 1957 musical Jamaica as Ginger alongside leading lady Lena Horne.
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Josephine Premice appeared as Louise Belefonte on the final weeks of the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm.
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Josephine Premice played a supporting role in the 1974 television movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as Ms.
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Josephine Premice guest-starred on The Jeffersons in 1979, playing Louise Jefferson's sister, and The Cosby Show in 1986.
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Josephine Premice died in her Manhattan residence on April 13,2001, at the age of 74 from complications of emphysema.