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California Historical Society, Set 72157639867605596, ID 12001506164, Original title Menu, Don the Beachcomber, Hollywood [cover] File usage The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Don the Beachcomber menu cover, 1943 When Prohibition ended in 1933, he opened a bar in Hollywood called "Don's Beachcomber" [ 11 ] [ 12 ] at 1722 N. McCadden Place. With its success he began calling himself Don the Beachcomber (the eventual name of his establishment), and also legally changed his name to Donn Beach. [ 1 ]
The Beachcomber is a 1954 British comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box starring Donald Sinden, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Paul Rogers, Donald Pleasence and Michael Hordern. [2] The film is based on the 1931 short story " The Vessel of Wrath " by W. Somerset Maugham and was adapted by Sydney Box .
As the town cafe and natural meeting point, where Nick also rented a room as office space for his salvage company, much of the drama happened in and immediately around Molly's Reach. The original structure was built in 1931, and served a variety of purposes, including a second hand store , a general store , a hardware store and a liquor store ...
Pauline Kael gave the film a very positive review, calling it a "charming, neglected romantic comedy" in which both Laughton and Lanchester are "wonderful". [2]The New York Times review of the second film adaptation, starring Robert Newton, found it less entertaining than its predecessor, which was praised as a "vigorous comedy and a thing of film beauty" with "inspired characterizations by ...
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The Beachcomber, a British series premiering in 1962 The Beachcombers , a Canadian TV series premiering in 1972 ending in 1990; also airing as "Beachcombers" Beach Combers , a 1936 Walter Lantz cartoon
The Sumatra Kula cocktail was created by Donn Beach, also known as "the beachcomber" because of his Don the Beachcomber chain of restaurants, and may have been one of his very first drinks, allegedly gaining notoriety after he served it to a reporter from the New York Tribune. [5]