21 Club - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Breakfast at Tiffany's: In Capote's novella, the narrator spots Holly Golightly at the restaurant
Run for Your Life: In the thriller novel, written by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, a serial killer known as "The Teacher", murders the restaurant's Maitre'D as part of a killing spree.
One Fine Day: Michelle Pfeiffer has drinks with clients in the lounge.
Sex and the City: Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth dine in the Bar Room.
The Apprentice: Donald Trump sends contestants there for a meal.
Two for the Money: Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey discuss business on their way inside.
Rear Window: Grace Kelly has a waiter from "21" deliver dinner to a convalescing James Stewart at his apartment.
Wall Street: Michael Douglas educates Charlie Sheen on the finer things in life (steak tartare and expensive suits).
In Manhattan Murder Mystery, Larry (played by Woody Allen) and Carol (played by Diane Keaton) take their son Nick to 21 Club for his birthday.
I Love Lucy: In the episode Vacation From Marriage, Lucy and Ethel pretend to have dates at 21 to make their husbands jealous. In the episode Mr. and Mrs. TV Show, Lucy tells Ricky she met TV producer Harvey Cromwell while having lunch at 21 with Carolyn Appleby.
In 1968's How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, Stella Stevens pickets the 21 Club because Dean Martin has dumped her as his mistress.
"This Could Be the Start of Something Big", music by Steve Allen has a verse: "You're dining at '21' and watching your diet/Declining a Charlotte Russe, accepting a fig".
In Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster meets Tony Curtis two times there.
In W.E.B. Griffin's series "The Corps", then-Lieutenant Ken McCoy and Ernestine Sage dine there often.
Cole Porter's "Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)": "While the crowds at El Morocco punish the parquet and at 21 the couples clamor for more..."
Family Affair: Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) plans to take Cissy (Kathy Garver) to the 21 Club for her birthday.
In The Bronx Is Burning, George Steinbrenner took Reggie Jackson to the 21 Club when he first arrived in New York
In Cradle Will Rock: The Orson Welles character gets in a taxi and asks to be taken to the 21 Club.
All About Eve: Celeste Holm goes to 21 to have lunch with Bette Davis.
In Quiz Show: the assistant complains that the producer would like a contestant on 21 "who looks like he could get a table at 21".
In Valley of the Dolls: the main characters meet here many times with various celebs and reporters.
In In a Lonely Place: a girl describing a book to Humphrey Bogart mentions it in the plot.
In Sabrina (1954): Humphrey Bogart mentions he was planning on having dinner at 21.
In Written on the Wind (1954): Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson share champagne in the bar near the beginning of the film.
In The Last Angry Man Woodrow Thrasher's (David Wayne) secretary mentions his meeting at 21 while going over his itinerary.
In chapter 9 of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond dines with Tiffany Case at 21 while pumping her for information about her employer, the Spangled Mob.
In Live and Let Die: James Bond (Roger Moore) boards the train with Ms. Solitaire, and tells U.S. CIA agent Felix that he will meet him at 21 club.
In Beach Blanket Bingo (1965): Bullets (Paul Lynde) tells Earl Wilson (Earl Wilson) that the club they are entering is not "a fancy New York night club, the kind you are used to, like the 21 Club" (at 43 minutes into film).
In The Nanny: Charles Shaughnessy suggests going to 21 Club after Daniel Davis, the butler, falls ill.
Once appeared in the Late Show with David Letterman opening theme.
In The Man Who Came to Dinner: Bette Davis mentions 21 while talking around a campfire.
In How to Marry a Millionaire: Lauren Bacall mentions 21 after selling the piano.
In Week-End at the Waldorf, after getting out of a car, Ginger Rogers is urged to attend a gathering at 21.
In an episode of Jeeves and Wooster Jeeves (Stephen Fry) briefly describes spending the night at the 21 club.
In Cass Timberlane: Zachary Scott mentions 21 to Lana Turner over the phone.
In Lady Be Good (1941):Marilyn (Eleanor Powell) and Buddy (John Carroll) leave to have lunch at 21 to let Dixie (Ann Sothern) and Eddie (Robert Young) talk alone.
In "Archer, Season 2 Heart of Archness I, Mallory says she will reserve their usual booth at 21
In "Archer, Season 3 Episode 4, Archer misses his birthday dinner at 21

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