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Last night I had Charlie Chaplin in my kitchen. And Hemingway and Shirley Temple. Or, at least, I did it in liquid form. The three VIP had cocktails created for them in the heyday of their fame and, although they may have gone, they live in their art, and in Gin, Grenadina and Ron.
The golden age for the cocktail of list A was between the first and Second World War, an era in which cocktails were created to celebrate everything from opening nights and state occasions to the most popular film stars. In 1920, Charlie Chaplin was honored with a cocktail in New York Hotel Waldorf-Actoria. There is no evidence that the actor has taken that fairly sick mixture of Albricoque brandy, Lima gin and lime juice. But still, the drink endures. More to my liking is the favorite bar call from the Jean Harlow sex bomb: equal parts of light white rum and red vermouth with a touch of lime or lemon (some add a pinch of orange bitter).
When the Shirley Temple children’s star was forced to settle for Soda Pop at the Hollywood parties, she did not have fun. Then, Legend has it, he commissioned the Beverly Hills Chasen’s restaurant to create his own temperance cocktail. Highball contained grenadine, elongated with ginger beer or lemon and lime soft drinks (the sources differ), with a citrus squeery and an important cocktail cherry. Black linesThe Shirley Temple bottled would not look out of place in an adult cocktail (£ 12 by 75cl).
Havana was a seedbed of celebrities that drank during the American prohibition, which resulted in the birth of two classic drinks. Pineapple and Mary Pickford was invented in the monolithic National Hotel in Cuba When the actor was in the city filming with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. Composed of two thirds of pineapple juice, a third of Ron Bacardi and a pinch of grenadine (or, later, a pinch of Maráásquino liquor) can skew sweet, but in the standard Standard double bar In London they have a great “smoked” turn made with diplomatic rum, a smoked bush of pineapple, lemon and grenadine. The centered rum Bedford Stone Street In New York, it also has an intelligent variation made with Rowanberry Eau-de-Vie.
Ernest Hemingway sank so many Daiquiris in Havana The Floridita Bar, created one in their honor, with a double help from Ron, Lima, Pomelo Juice and Maráásquino liquor instead of sugar. Originally baptized the Daiquiri as dad, then the double dad, this good cocktail is better known today as the Hemingway Daiquiri and can still be enjoyed in the Floridita (in a slightly less powerful way) along with a real -size bronze of the sitting -sitting sitting In the bar.
The Martini has generated several variations on list A, including the Gibson Martini de Cabeche onion, which is believed to be named after the Walter DK Gibson entrepreneurs or the American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the famous pneumatic girls of Gibson. “The onions represent the white breasts of the women he drew,” wrote the famous British waiter Dick Bradsell in 1998, “so always give the client two.”
But why be happy with a cocktail when you can give your name to a complete bar? The Ritz in Paris was a favorite Hemingway den: He spent many nights drinking Martinis and Coñac with a Louche gang that included F Scott Fitzgerald. And his living room with wood panels was duly rebelled Hemingway bar in 1994.
Fitzgerald also has its own namesake bar in the Hôtel Belles Rives In Cap d’Anibes: the hotel that was housed only months after publishing The Great Gatsby, A novel that celebrates its centenary this year. To commemorate the occasion, Belles Rives will organize a variety of events inspired by Gatsby throughout 2025. Be sure to ask for a gin rickey, which appears in The Great Gatsby And it was supposedly Fitzgerald’s favorite drink.
New in the renewed Palm Beach Cannes It is the member bar of Jean-Paul, an elegant cocktail hall that bears the name of the French film star and the Jean-Paul Belmondo pink. The drinks are inspired by the film legacy of the Art Deco-building as a backdrop of the film, with cocktails that are named after the character of the character of the 1950s, Lino Ventura and Pampelonne, the beach where Brigitte Bardot filmed And God created the woman.
The celebrity drink brands are ten and cents these days, but the tribute cocktail has died. Where are the swift sors, the Timothée Martinis and the Daiquiris Eilish? Once considered adulation, it is now just an IP infraction. What leaves us with a question: if you were a cocktail, what would it be?