Hitchcock Chronology: Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California...

1942

May

• Over lunch at the Brown Derby, author Gordon McDonell pitches a story idea to Hitchcock about a "handsome, successful, debonair" man who visits his family in a small Californian town only for his young niece to suspect that he might be a serial killer. Initially titled "Uncle Charlie", the story becomes Shadow of a Doubt. McDonnell's original story ends with the uncle falling off a cliff after a failed attempt to silence his niece.

1957

February

• 8th - Actor Miles Mander, who starred in The Pleasure Garden (1925), dies of a heart attack whilst dining at a Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles.