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Brown Derby was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California. The first and best known was shaped like a derby hat , an iconic image that became synonymous with the Golden Age of Hollywood . It was opened by Wilson Mizner in 1926. [ 1 ]
The Brown Derby is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Ruth Dwyer, and Edmund Breese. [2] [3] A young plumber inherits a brown Derby hat from his uncle, which is said to bring good luck to its owner. While wearing it fortune does seem to smile on him, although it is in fact a case of mistaken ...
The Brown Derby, originally called the "De Rigueur" in cocktail books, [1] is a three-ingredient cocktail that was named after the Brown Derby hat-shaped Los Angeles diner. [2] It consists of bourbon , grapefruit juice , and honey syrup . [ 3 ]
Another version of the creation is that Robert Kreis, executive chef at the restaurant, created the salad in 1929 (the year the Brown Derby's Hollywood location opened) and named it in honor of Cobb. [6] The same source confirms that 1937 was the reported date of the version noted above, with Cobb making the salad. [6]
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Addison could no longer pay Wilson, so he returned to California. There, he obtained backing from Jack L. Warner and Gloria Swanson and bought into and managed the Brown Derby restaurants, and wrote screenplays for some of the early talk movies. His best known movie work is the screenplay for the Michael Curtiz movie 20,000 Years in Sing Sing.
The Brown Derbies is an a cappella group at Brown University. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were founded by Darryl Shrock in 1982 and have released fifteen albums. They sing a variety of different genres, ranging from Rock, to Pop, to R&B and are known in the a cappella community for their unique use of syllables in the background vocals. [ 3 ]
Brown Derby was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California. Brown Derby may also refer to: Brown Derby (actor), Scottish actor; Brown Derby (cocktail) Brown Derby (liquor company), the chain of liquor stores; The Brown Derby, a 1926 American silent comedy film