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ROMANOFF'S

 

Restaurant managed by  par le Prince Michael Romanoff (self-proclaimed).

Addresses

* from 1941 to February 1951 : 326 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills

* since  February 1951 : 240 South Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills.

It closed after the New Year's Eve 1962.

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326 North Rodeo Drive

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240 South Rodeo Drive

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There was a wines and gifts shop located 140 South Rodeo Drive 

At his restaurant in Palm Springs, 1958 ,

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Michael ROMANOFF

Born Hershel Geguzin.

Date of birth : February 20, 1890, Lithuania.

Date of death : September 1st, 1971, Los Angeles.

Address  717 North Beverly Drive .

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Mike Romanoff emigrated to the USA in 1900. He changed his borth name in Harry F. Gerguson.

On July 4, 1948 he married in Las Vegas Gloria Lister who had been his secretary (May 8, 1921, Rhode

Island-2013, Los Angeles ) (,,,

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On December 31, 1948, he attended the New Year's Eve at producer Sam Spiegel's house .

He got naturalized on June 27, 1958 .

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Link with Marilyn

Marilyn was a regular client of this place since the end of the 40's; it was Johnny Hyde who took her there. 

In November 1954 this restaurant was chosen by Charles Feldman, then Marilyn's agent, for a party organized in Marilyn's honor, including 80 guests, among them Darryl Zanuck, Samuel Goldwyn and Jack Warner, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Loretta Young, Billy Wilder.

To Marilyn, one of the main point of this party was to meet Clark Gable, very old idol and father figure, and to dance with him.

They mutually complimented about their work and said that they wanted to make a movie together.

 

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