#The Hollywood Brown Derby

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Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin at The Brown Derby in 1956. Ralph Edwards stops by.

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Barbara Stanwyk at the Brown Derby

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Claudette Colbert enjoying lunch at The Brown Derby.

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[katiechristiansen7916]

I dined at the Hollywood Brown Derby at Disney’s Hollywood Studios today — and I will definitely be making a repeat visit. The decor was neat, especially since it was inspired by the original restaurant. And the service was fantastic.

My dining companions and I opted for the prixe fixe Fantasmic dining package. For the new package, you get to pick one entree and one appetizer or dessert from the entire menu. You also get free unlimited non-alcoholic beverages (including a list of mocktails that features the recipe for the original Shirley Temple with a souvenir glow cube).

To get the most bang for my buck, I chose pricier items off the menu and opted for an appetizer. Their shrimp cocktail is quite possibly the best shrimp I’ve ever had.

For dinner, I had the ultra tender filet mignon with the well-seasoned root vegetable hash and peppers. I highly recommend it!

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - September 12, 1962

A drunk Jack Warner throws up on Harry Manka at The Brown Derby starting an all-out studio war.

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Is Hollywood Brown Derby Worth the Price?

Hollywood Brown Derby is a $$$ restaurant, but is it worth your $$$? We answer this important question and try their signature Grapefruit Cake!

Have you ever spent all morning inside Disney’s Hollywood Studios going on rides, watching shows, then think about your lunch options and say to yourself, “I want to eat at the most expensive restaurant in the park!” No? Funny, me neither. So what brings me to the most expensive restaurant inside Disney’s Hollywood Studios? Curiosity, really. A desire to dine in a replica of a Hollywood…

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Guide to Disney Jollywood Nights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Have you heard the news? A brand-new Walt Disney World nighttime party kicks off tomorrow at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! Disney Jollywood Nights is a separately ticketed event on select nights from Nov. 11 to Dec. 20 where Hollywood glamour meets holiday cheer. Beats and Eats at Disney Jollywood Nights As you enter Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you’ll find a DJ stationed at the corner of Sunset…

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Bygone Hollywood

Hollywood Tours of Ages Past Hollywood tours include many decades-old landmarks like the Capitol Records Building or Jess Lasky’s Studio, but sadly there are some landmarks whose names live on in Hollywood history but they no longer exist. Such is the fate of the Brown Derby. The Brown Derby restaurant was an iconic Hollywood eatery that was established in 1926 by Robert H. Cobb, a renowned…

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15-year-old Ray Bradbury with Marlene Dietrich, 1935

"I was madly in love with Hollywood… I had been roller skating all over the town and was absolutely obsessed with getting autographs from all those glamorous stars. It was great. I saw really big MGM stars like Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, Ronald Colman. Or I would hang out all day in front of Paramount or Columbia, then rush to the Brown Derby to look at the stars coming in or out of there. I saw Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Allen, Burns and Allen – everyone who'd been to the coast. Mae West appeared every Friday with her bodyguard. ...I still have these autographs, and the wheels from the rollers also survived to these days. Almost all of those people I had met are already gone, but by some miracle Marlene and George survived. The light coming from these photos is like a repeated session of my life about a slightly stupid, but always loyal boy who terribly didn't want to grow up."

- Ray Bradbury

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Cary at the Brown Derby

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“The men sat in the next booth at the Brown Derby. My back was to them. Suddenly I perked up as I heard my name. “Liz Renay,” one of them said. “There’s a girl who had some tough breaks.” “She brought it on herself,” the other voice said. “Still … it’s kind of sad. She wasn’t just another one of those French pastries who come to Hollywood to look for fame. She had it. She has one of the most beautiful faces I ever saw. You know, she just missed being great.” I turned to get a look at the man who had just spoken. I recognized him as William Ornstein, a reporter for Hollywood Reporter. Ornstein spoke again: “Yeah, that Renay really could have made it big. She was on the way to becoming a superstar. Add a few good breaks and subtract a few of the bad ones and you know, she could have been Marilyn Monroe.”

/ From Liz Renay’s chatty, meandering autobiography My Face for the World to See (1971) /

Born on this day: the sublime Liz Renay (née Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins, 14 April 1926 - 22 January 2007) – b-movie actress / burlesque queen / jailbird / naive outsider painter / gangster Mickey Cohen’s moll / “Streaking Grandmother” / authoress of multiple volumes of sordid memoirs (including My First 2,000 Men and Staying Young) / all-round kitsch icon and the woman hailed by John Waters as “my idea of total glamour.” For Waters’ fans, Renay is venerated for her performance as Muffy St Jacques in punk masterpiece Desperate Living (1977) - especially for her acidic delivery of lines like, "I was having an erotic dream!" and "I sleep in the room next door - naked!" She’s also memorable in The Thrill Killers (1964) and The Hard Road (1970).

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‘In this 1949 file photo, big band singer Margaret Whiting is flanked by Jerry Lewis, left, and Dean Martin at the Hollywood Brown Derby’ (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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Cobb salad was named after Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, a villain in Batman comic books who is better known as the Penguin.

…wait. I’m being told it’s named after its supposed inventor, Robert Howard Cobb, co-owner of the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood.

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top 5 desserts 🍮🍪🍨🍰🍦

GULAB JAMUN ICE CREAM MERA FAVOURITE MAGAR YAAN PAAS NAHI MILTA

choc chip cookie dough ice cream

sooo there was this specific grapefruit cake in brown derby at hollywood studios i had years ago it was really yummy.

choclate cake

CIMMAMP ROLL

[qwainte]

Here is an unfinished sketch of a Bully/Canis Canem Edit OC of mine. I'm not planning on completing this particular image, but I still wanted to post something because I said a while back that I'd share something about my OCs but I never did, so here is Brandi Torres!

My first fanfic that I posted on ao3 (you can find the link on my blog) actually includes her and another one of my OCs. I thought it was a fun way to introduce them while also writing a self-indulgent rarepair story, lol.

Some basic info. It might change in the future:

Full Name: Brandi Isabela Torres Romão Birth date: August 17th Age: 15 Height: 165 cm School: Bullworth Academy Year: 10th Clique: Preppies Hair color: Black Eyes: Light brown

Below is her bio that I created a few months ago, back when I said I would post a work about my OCs on ao3. I didn't really know how to write their biographies in a way that would be interesting to read and I wanted to push myself to post my art online, so I scrapped that idea. Again, this info may change:

Brandi was born in New York and was the last child of four. Growing up in the hustle and bustle of NYC, Brandi was exposed to the glamorous world of showbiz. Her father, a movie producer and director, and her mother, an acclaimed opera singer, provided Brandi with a comfortable upbringing. Growing up, Brandi would spend her summer holidays at her family's vacation home in the Hamptons, where she first met Bryce Montrose and was immediately smitten with him. As the years passed, Brandi's feelings for Bryce grew to the point of possessiveness, although Bryce remains unaware of this and continues to regard Brandi like a little sister. Brandi is equally blind to Bryce's non-romantic feelings for her, believing that one day they will become a couple. When she was eleven years old, Brandi's family moved to New England and enrolled her into Bullworth Academy at the suggestion of the Montroses. She instantly became fast friends with Pinky and Gord and developed close relationships with Bif and Fiona (OC) [I plan on posting her soon, I just need to clean up her sketch]. It was during her time at Bullworth that Brandi began to compete for Bryce's attention, although it was often given to Chad instead. Through it all, Brandi remains one of Bryce's closest companions. Brandi is a well-known figure around school due to her parents' influence in the entertainment industry. She's taken her love of the spotlight and channeled it into her involvement with the Drama Club. She offers a certain level of flair to school productions, but her overconfidence in her singing talent often falls short of expectations. She loves to show off her wealth and flaunt her parents' fame at every opportunity. Brandi takes great pleasure in throwing lavish parties and often invites less wealthy students as guests. Brandi is social and amiable on the surface but can easily display a nastier side to those whom she sees as obstacles. She is good at persuasion and manipulation and will do whatever it takes to get what or who she wants.

See? It's boring! Anyway, onto trivia i.e. info I'm too lazy to try and fit into her bio:

She and her father are the only ones in her family born in the US. Her mother and siblings were born in Portugal

Speaks with a Trans-Atlantic accent [Oh, to be a starlet in old Hollywood!]

Knows Bryce is broke and covers for him

Derby usually entrusts her to plan parties at Harrington House

She and Gary bump heads a lot as he doesn't care for her flattery at all. She also got him kicked off the debate team

Favorite color is white

Good at Geometry

Brandi is actually a composite of herself and another one of my OCs; Isabella was an OC I've had for a while who shared a lot of similarities with Brandi so I combined them together. Brandi's second personal name is an homage to Isabella

Thanks for sticking around this long to check her out. This is literally the first time I have posted my art on the internet, and honestly? I'm terrified, lmao. I always hated my art and rn I'm experimenting with a new art style so I'm unsure about everything. Hopefully future me doesn't decide to delete this post.