1. Michael Romanoff is perhaps best remembered as the owner of the now-defunct Romanoff's, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s.
16 Facts About Michael Romanoff
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Michael Romanoff claimed to be a member of Russia's royal House of Romanov.
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Michael Romanoff changed his name from Hershel to Harry F Gerguson some time after 1900 and married Gloria Lister in 1948.
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Michael Romanoff tells Niven to remember him to Commando chief Bob Laycock whom he knew at Eton.
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Michael Romanoff died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 aged 81.
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From 1941 to 1951, Michael Romanoff's was located at 326 North Rodeo Drive.
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Michael Romanoff generally snubbed his clientele, and preferred to lunch with his dogs.
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Noodles Michael Romanoff, which has some similarities to Beef Stroganoff, is a dish made of wide egg noodles, sour cream, and grated Parmesan cheese that originally appeared at Michael Romanoff's in the mid-1950s, and became a popular menu item often mentioned in Hollywood reporting.
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Later, after Michael Romanoff's went out of business, the dish was served at Stouffer's Top of the Rock Restaurant in Chicago.
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Soon, various companies' versions of Noodles Michael Romanoff could be purchased in grocery stores for preparation at home.
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Michael Romanoff was one of several guest stars on The Jack Benny Program radio show on 8 January 1950.
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Michael Romanoff was the guest star on the December 8,1950, "Selling the Tavern" episode of the Duffy's Tavern radio show.
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Michael Romanoff can be heard as a contestant on the 28 November 1951 radio edition of the Groucho Marx quiz, You Bet Your Life.
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Michael Romanoff's was where the original rat pack, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Sid Luft, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn and Frank Sinatra would congregate, Myrna Loy and her husband celebrated their divorce, and Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had their infamous reconciliation.
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The exterior of the then-shuttered Michael Romanoff's can be seen in the 1967 Fox film, A Guide for the Married Man.
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Michael Romanoff himself plays the maitre'd in a sequence in the film in a studio recreation of the restaurant's interior.