Brown Derby is said to have proposed to Carole Lombard there. Rival gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper are recorded as regular patrons. In "L.A. at Last", the first of the Hollywood episodes of "I Love Lucy", Lucy (Lucille Ball), Ethel (Vivian Vance), and Fred (William Frawley) have lunch at the Brown Derby. During the misadventure, the trio dines in a booth with Eve Arden on one side and William Holden (who orders a Cobb Salad) on the other. This leads to the famous disaster scene in which Lucy inadvertently causes a waiter to hit Holden in the face with a
Lost film film called "Boo!" (1932). However, UCLA still has a copy of the soundtrack. The James Cagney film "Winner Take All" (1932) used scenes from the early talkie "Queen of the Night Clubs" (1929) starring Texas Guinan. While "Queen of the Night Clubs" was not a lost film in 1932, no prints of the film have survived through the decades, and only that footage included in "Winner Take All" remains. Actress turned gossip columnist Hedda Hopper made her screen debut in a Fox Film called "The Battle of Hearts" (1916). The star of the film was William Farnum, then at the