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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.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Ada "Bricktop" Smith, who operated venues in Rome, Paris and Mexico City, brushed shoulders with the likes of Langston Hughes, Salvador Dalí and Gertrude Stein.
Ada “Bricktop” Smith apareció justo cuando París y los franceses estaban con sus brazos abiertos para acoger cualquier distracción. “Bricktop” llegó a Francia el 11 de mayo de 1924 a bordo del buque “America” de la Cunard Line. Ella tenía 29 años. Dejó el país a bordo del “Washington”.
6 de ene. de 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.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Ada “Bricktop” Smith reigned as the grande dame of the Paris nightclub scene. T.S. Eliot wrote a poem for her, and she was a muse to the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
31 de ene. de 2024 · Ada “Bricktop” Smith died in her Manhattan apartment one night in 1984, aged 89. Cole Porter declared that his friend must have been “an empress” in a former life. It seems an apt description of a no-nonsense woman who carried herself with regal grace (when sober), entertained the world’s political and artistic elite ...
1 de may. de 2020 · Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith was a saloonkeeper, actress, singer, nightclub owner, and international celebrity host who opened nightclubs in Paris and Rome.
