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Somborn was the president of Equity Pictures, a film distribution company. [2] He married Gloria Swanson in a civil ceremony at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles on December 20, 1919. [3] [4] They stayed in the hotel after the marriage, but as Equity was in financial difficulties they had to move out in 1920 to an apartment in Hollywood. [5]
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress , most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard , which also earned her a Golden Globe Award .
The chain was started by Robert H. Cobb and Herbert K. Somborn (a former husband of film star Gloria Swanson) in the 1920s. The original Brown Derby restaurants had closed or had been converted to other uses by the 1980s, though a Disney-backed Brown Derby national franchising program revived the brand in the 21st century.
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Gloria Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marquise de La Coudraye (née Gloria May Josephine Swanson, previously Somborn) on 28 January 1925 [434] Countess Raoul de Roussy de Sales (née Reine Marie Tracy, previously Stewart) on 5 February 1925 [435] Katherine James, Baroness Northbourne (née Katherine Louise Nickerson) on 4 March 1925 [436]
Gloria Swanson's husband, Herbert Somborn, opened the Brown Derby Restaurant, a hat-shaped building at Wilshire and Alexandria, in 1926. The hat now sits on top of a ...
Wallace was married to actress, Gloria Swanson. Gloria's daughter from another marriage, Gloria Swanson Somborn, is also an actress. Begley. Academy Award-winning actor, Ed Begley's, son is actor and environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Bellisario. Producer and screenwriter, Donald P. Bellisario, was married four times. His children include:
Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henri Le Bailly de la Falaise; February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.