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Bricktop

James Haskins

Bricktop by Bricktop : Prohibition Harlem, Cafe Society Paris, Movie Mad Rome, The Queen of the Nightclubs Tells the Exuberant Story of a Fabulous Life Hardcover – 1983

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Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Atheneum; 1st edition (1983)
Language: English
ASIN: B0013OAEWG
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,657,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Alex J. Vallas

Old Memories

January 6, 2012

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I knew Bricktop and used to frequent her nightclub in Rome frequently. I had met Ava Gardner there, who was with Anthony Franciosa. That night, Bricktop asked her to leave as she was so drunk she could hardly stand up. The papparazzi were waiting outside. She was downing champagne, beer and brandy -- alternating. The club always had celebraties and Bricktop was very entertaining. Everyone loved to hear her sign "Miss Otis Regrets.' I was also there one night when Ella Fitzgerald was there to celebrate her birthday. Saw and met numerous other stars in this very small club. Great memories revived with this book.

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Sharon Streeter

Bricktop

January 6, 2013

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I think that Bricktop shows how entertainment changes with time and how an uneducated, Black female learned business and the entertainment throughout the decades. The book also shows changing times and how all people are the same basically with the pursuit of love, money and happiness. Bricktop started out as a naive saloon singer and ended up rubbing elbows with the elite of society.

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suzanne

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January 30, 2014

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my mom knew bricktop in rome, they became very good friends, we were in her nite club often, an old friend of mine , ralph burns, played piano in here club just for the fun of it,, i met him years later in L.A. .fun to re hash those times..

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patricia harman

I wasn't expecting a novel or a great work of art

December 7, 2015

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I bought this book for research into African American's in Paris pre-WW2 for a book I'm writing. It served it's purpose. I wasn't expecting a novel or a great work of art. Bricktop is a fascinating character.

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Shawn Sudia-Skehan

Loved this retrospective of the Jazz Age - from the ...

December 23, 2014

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Loved this retrospective of the Jazz Age - from the point of view of one who was at the center of the Parisian ex-patriot world. Fascinating and a woman one has to admire and respect.

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sam dennis

FAMOUS AND REMEMBERED AMERICAN BLACK NIGHT CLUB PERSONALITY. HER NAME WAS BRICKTOP

May 4, 2009

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READING THIS BRINGS UP UNKNOWN AND KNOWN REMININESSENCES OF A PAST ERA IN US, FRANCE, ITALY, & MEXICO FROM A STRONG WILLED WOMAN OF COLOR. SHE DOESN'T MINCE WORDS IN THIS FAST MOVING, BITTERSWEET MEMOIR OF THIS FACINATION POWERHOUSE IN THE DEEP DEMI MONDE OF INTERNATIONAL NIGHTCLUBS. FAMOUS NAMES AND PLACES OF YORE. SHE WAS AN ORIGINAL. FACINATING.

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Claudia goodson

Five Stars

June 29, 2018

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Great book

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Prince Moore

Good Book

September 15, 2008

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I bought the book for a friend Yve Evans thet was playing Bricktop in a stage play. It was very helpful. Yve enjoyed the book and it helped her better understand the woman she was playing.....

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