- 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.
- The character 'Blackie Norton', played by Clark Gable in San Francisco (1936), was based on Mizner.
- First worked on Broadway in 1909.
- Father: Lansing Bond Mizner; Mother : Ella Watson.
- Gambler and opium addict.
- Enjoyed middling success as a Broadway playwright before trying his hand as a Hollywood screenwriter.
- Had seven siblings.
- In 1897 he and 3 brothers participated in Canada's Klondike gold rush.
- Father was an American diplomat to Central America.
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