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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
On June 3rd 1968, writer Valerie Solonas entered The Factory and shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya. She wrote The SCUM manifesto.
The iconic image of Josephine Baker is of her performing in a Paris club in the 1920's wearing only a skirt made of artificial bananas and a necklace.
Meet the famous artists and writers whose work epitomised France's Roaring Twenties
Baker, flamboyantly dressed in flowing gowns and sparkling jewels, would saunter through the club. In her memoir, “Les Memoires De Josephine Baker,” which was composed in the cabaret with writer Marcel Sauvage, Baker described the club as a place of joy. “I’ve never been so amused. I make jokes, I caress the skin of bald men, I play with the beards of bearded gentlemen. Look at these gentlemen in the day: they don’t laugh as much,” she wrote. “Everyone doing the Charleston, I keep them all entertained, the waiters, the cook, the cashier, the hunters, the goat, and the pig …...