Perhaps the best of the six features the émigré American performer Josephine Baker made, Princess Tam Tam is an exotic Pygmalion story set out as a musical comedy. A French author (Préjean) goes to North Africa to write a novel but becomes distracted—then entranced—by a native girl whom he transforms into a “princess.” Shot partly on location in Tunisia, Princess Tam Tam provides a vehicle for Baker’s comedic charms as well as her erotic and evocative talents. The film was written by the entertainer’s husband at the time, Pepito Abatino.