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- Defunción3 de abril de 1933 · Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (un ataque al corazón)
- Wilson Mizner nació el 19 de mayo de 1876 en California, Estados Unidos. Fue un escritor y actor, conocido por The Mind Reader (1933), Frisco Jenny (1932) y Hard to Handle (1933). Estuvo casado con Mary Adelaide Moore Yerkes. Murió el 3 de abril de 1933 en Los Ángeles, California, EE.UU..
- CónyugeMary Adelaide Moore Yerkes(January 30, 1906 - ?) (divorciado)
- 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.
- Wilson and his brother Addison are the subjects of the Stephen Sondheim musical play, Road Show, previously known as Wiseguys and Bounce.
- 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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