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Apr 30, 2024 · At Her Globe-Spanning Nightclubs, This Black Entertainer Hosted a ‘Who’s Who’ of the 20th Century. Ada “Bricktop” Smith, who operated venues in Rome, Paris and Mexico City, brushed ...
Mar 5, 2017 · Originally named Ada Smith, she would go by the name Bricktop for most of her life. A woman who was the center of the night scene in Paris during the ’20s, Bricktop was a talented woman in her own right and fostered the talent of the people around her.
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984), better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the famous nightclub "Chez Bricktop" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.
Jan 6, 2013 · Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (“Bricktop”), vaudevillian actress, singer, nightclub owner, and international celebrity host, was born August 14, 1894 in Alderson, West Virginia, to Thomas and Hattie Thompson Smith.
Feb 25, 2024 · Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode we are looking into we are looking into the life of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, club owner and...
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Feb 4, 2023 · During the 1960s, she founded one last club on Rome’s Via Veneto for the new royalty of “Hollywood on the Tiber,” until, at last, she closed its doors. On March 6, 1964, the New York Daily News ran the headline Bricktop, Queen of Nightclubs, Abdicates. Bricktop died in New York on February 1, 1984.
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