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
Judy Davis nomination for her supporting performance as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in Ryan Murphy's anthology television series "Feud". The following year, Davis co-starred with Aaron Pederson in the six-part ABC TV Series, "Mystery Road". Davis's performance as the local police sergeant was praised, and "The New York Times" wrote, "The thing that really sets "Mystery Road" apart is the actress who signed on to play the outback sergeant Emma James: the great Judy Davis, playing a police officer for the first time in her career and starring in an Australian TV series for the first time in nearly 40 years. Ms.