Title: Bricktop /
Authors: Bricktop,; Haskins, James,
Date: 1983
Publisher: Atheneum,
Physical description: xviii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: A famous Black entertainer describes her childhood, her career in vaudeville, and her life as a successful cabaret singer in Paris.
Contents: Early years -- On the road -- Saloon singer -- The War years -- Prohibition -- Paris -- Cole Porter ... and Josephine Baker -- Bricktop's -- Saloonkeeper par excellence -- The golden era -- And we all played on -- The crisis -- New York -- Mexico City -- Return to Paris -- The holy hustler -- Hollywood-on-the-Tiber -- Old warhorse.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Autobiographies.; Bricktop, 1894-1984.; Singers--Biography.