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Muppet Fact #1603
Rita Moreno claims the Cocoanut Grove nightclub was entirely remodeled for The Muppets Go Hollywood.
Source:
The Muppets Go Hollywood. May 16, 1979.
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Muppet Fact #1603
Rita Moreno claims the Cocoanut Grove nightclub was entirely remodeled for The Muppets Go Hollywood.
Source:
The Muppets Go Hollywood. May 16, 1979.
"On the floor hugging and kissing"
This was an article about Judy Garland's opening at The Cocoanut Grove in 1958. There was an after party at the Ambassador Hotel and apparently Dean and Jerry were together.
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Screenland magazine, March 1940
Character actor Jack Perkins as the drunken shriner
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Sue's breath clouded the air as black cars with lantern headlights passed on Piedmont Street, slowing near the entrance to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Ladies in winter coats and boxy heels stepped spritely in the winter wind that scudded along the sidewalk. Music swirled out to the street as the revolving door slowly spun patrons into the club. Few came back out. On this night, many never would.
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Polly Bergen and Eddie Fisher blowing out the candles on a cake at the Cocoanut Grove, in the Ambassador Hotel in 1966. The nightclub was hosting the opening night of a residency by Fisher, and Bergen's birthday.
Ava Gardner at Ambassador's Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles, 1942
January 1968 - Date Nights
Looks like De and Carolyn went out for some swanky nights in late January 1968. First to see Mel Torme at the famous Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel (article appeared 20 January 1968):
Next for dinner at "Dino's Lodge" which was Dean Martin's restaurant on Sunset (article appeared 31 January 1968):
A description found says "The tinkle of cocktail glasses… the aroma of fine food… murmurs of sophisticated conversation…waiters dressed smartly in black pants and red jackets with gold buttons… This mood of genteel elegance pervaded Dino's Lodge on the Sunset Strip Saturday night."
In case you were wondering what was served in these places, check out the menus:
Cocoanut Grove "from the 70s":
Dinos from sometime between 1960 - 1970:
The inflation calculator (1968 vs 2023) says $1.75 is $15.48 (hors d'oeuvres), $4.00 is $35.38 (chicken entrees), $6.00 is $53.07 (NY sirloin/filet mignon), and $9.50 is $84.02 (rack of lamb for 2).
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Season 2 of Star Trek had finished filming early January 1968 and had not yet been renewed for the third season (the writing campaign was going strong though). De and Carolyn were probably out celebrating the end of filming and also De's birthday (January 20.)
Both articles were from the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News.