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Herbert K. Somborn (1880 - January 2, 1934) was an American film director and producer, and restaurant owner. Biography. Somborn was the president of Equity Pictures, a film distribution company. He married Gloria Swanson in a civil ceremony at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles on December 20, 1919.
- 1880
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- January 2, 1934 (aged 53–54)
19 set 2021 · Herbert K. Somborn (1881-1934), was president of Equity Pictures Corporation and later the owner of the legendary Hollywood landmark, the Brown Derby restaurant, in 1919. He was also the second husband of film star Gloria Swanson.
Herbert K. Somborn, 53, head of the Brown Derby restaurants in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Beverly Hills, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Jan. 2, follwing a year's illness during which he suffered two operations. Somborn, a former motion picture distributor, married Gloria...
Herbert K. Somborn. She married Herbert K. Somborn on December 20, 1919. He was at that time president of Equity Pictures Corporation and later the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant. Their daughter, Gloria Swanson Somborn, was born on October 7, 1920.
- Gloria Swanson
- Gloria May Josephine Swanson, March 27, 1899, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- 1980
- April 4, 1983 (aged 84), New York City, U.S.
- Wilshire Boulevard Brown Derby
- Hollywood Brown Derby
- Beverly Hills Brown Derby
- Los Feliz Brown Derby
- Brown Derby Crenshaw Center
- Licensing Program
- In Popular Culture
- Bibliography
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First Wilshire Derby
The first restaurant was opened in February 1926 at 3427 Wilshire Boulevard in a building built in the distinctive shape of a derby hat. Whimsical architecture was then in vogue, and the restaurant was designed to catch the eye of passing motorists. The Brown Derby name originated from a Malverne, New York-based restaurant of the same name that had been a hang-out for vaudevillians in the 1920s. It was founded by Wilson Mizner as a small cafe, across the street from the Hollywood hot spot the...
Replacement Wilshire building
In 1936, a larger building, also in the shape of a hat, was constructed at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard at the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Alexandria Avenue, about a block from its previous location (and directly across the street from the Ambassador Hotel).The restaurant was able to move into its new home in May of that year. In 1947's Fun and Fancy Free, the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment ends with Willie the Giant's stomping through Hollywood looking for Mickey Mouse. Before...
Despite its less distinctive Spanish Mission style facade, the second Brown Derby, which opened on Valentine's Day1929 at 1628 North Vine Street in Hollywood, was the branch that played the greater part in Hollywood history. Due to its proximity to movie studios, it became the place to do deals and be seen. In the first of the Hollywood episodes of...
Bob Cobb opened the third Brown Derby in 1931 at 9537 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, across from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The building had previously housed a women's clothing store called "The Petite Shop." One of the dining areas was called The American Room and featured charcoal portraits of Academy Award-winning actors by artist Nichol...
The building that formerly housed the Los Feliz Brown Derby at 4500 Los Feliz Boulevard has been in use as a restaurant since the 1920s. Film mogul Cecil B. DeMille, a part owner of the Wilshire Blvd. restaurant, bought the building, a former chicken restaurant named Willard's, and converted it into a Brown Derby in 1940. It uniquely combined a for...
A fifth Brown Derby opened in 1955 at the Broadway Crenshaw Shopping Center, now known as the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was a 24-hour coffee shop designed by architect Rowland Crawford and located near the center's Desmond's men's store[failed verification] The address was 3625 Stocker Avenue...
The Brown Derby began a licensing program in 1987, with an agreement with The Walt Disney Company for a replica of the original Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant at the new Disney-MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In 1990, the Walt Disney Company entered into three additional agreements for the Walt Disney Movie Studios at Disneyland Resort ...
Alleman, Richard (1985). The Movie Lover's Guide to Hollywood. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-091262-6.Geary, George (2016). L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 9781595800893.Willems, Mark (1996). The Brown Derby Restaurant: A Hollywood Legend. Rizzoli. ISBN 0847819256 – via Google Books.- 1926; 97 years ago
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Brother of Adele (Somborn) Sour. Husband of Gloria May Josephine Swanson — married 20 Dec 1919 (to 1922) in Los Angeles, California, United States. Father of Gloria Swanson (Somborn) Daly. Died 2 Jan 1934 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
14 feb 1988 · By then, she’d had six husbands, including actor Wallace Beery, a French marquis and businessman Herbert K. Somborn, who used the money he received in their divorce settlement to open the...
