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
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (film) office rentals earning $2 million, most assuredly earning more in ticket sales. The June 18th, 1956 issue of Time (magazine) reported the film at #3 as one of "The most popular and successful movies in the U.S. last month, according to the tradesheet Variety" coming in behind, respectively, Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) starring James Stewart and Doris Day and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones. Famed Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote in her May 17th, 1956 column: ""Since the success of 'Mamie Stover,' Buddy Adler has