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- Wilson Mizner was born on May 19, 1876 in Benicia, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Mind Reader (1933), Frisco Jenny (1932) and Hard to Handle (1933). He was married to Mary Adelaide Moore Yerkes. He died on April 3, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseMary Adelaide Moore Yerkes(January 30, 1906 - ?) (divorced)
- Dared 'Herbert K. Somborn' (ex-husband of Gloria Swanson): "If you know anything about food, you can sell it out of a hat." This led to the 1926 opening of the legendary hat-shaped Brown Derby restaurant.
- According to Anita Loos, he opened the Brown Derby because he could find no other spot "where a man of his inertia could loaf in comfort".
- Manager and co-owner of famed Hollywood eatery, The Brown Derby
- Man-about-town and raconteur who, with his architect brother Addison Mizner, developed Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida, as resorts for the rich.
- The character 'Blackie Norton', played by Clark Gable in San Francisco (1936), was based on Mizner.
- If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from many, it's research.
- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Be nice to people on you way up because you'll meet them on you way down.
- Two signs he posted for guests at the Hotel Rand: "No opium smoking in the elevators" and "Carry out your own dead."
- He'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.
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