Champagne cocktail

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A champagne cocktail is an alcoholic drink made with sugar, Angostura bitters, Champagne, brandy and a maraschino cherry as a garnish. It is one of the IBA Official Cocktails.

A recipe for the cocktail appears as early as "Professor" Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion (1862), which omits the brandy or cognac and is considered to be the "classic" American version.

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Pop Culture References

Mary (Carole Lombard) orders one in the 1934 movie The Gay Bride, while out shopping, with "Office Boy" (Chester Morris) tagging along.

Preston Foster says "Make mine a champagne cocktail!" in Annie Oakley (1935)

In the 1936 musical Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Roderick (Una O'Connor) comes back to the hotel ahead of Marie de Flor (MacDonald) to get things ready for her arrival with the Premier of Quebec (Alan Mowbray). As she's ordering the various servants to do certain tasks, she yells out "She wants champagne cocktails, right away!"

In the musical Comedy Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) and her fellow "gold digging" girlfriends, meet up with her new "sugar daddy" (Osgood Perkins), for lunch. He walks her over to the bar and orders "a Champagne Cocktail and a Martini".

Maggie Garret (Irene Dunne) orders one while out with Dan Brewster (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), in the 1938 Musical Comedy, Joy of Living.

In the 1940 movie The Ghost Comes Home, Vern (Frank Morgan) goes to a nightclub where a hostess keeps him company and after seeing his roll of money, orders a Champagne Cocktail for herself and a triple Old Fashioned for him

Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and Captain Renault (Claude Rains) order Champagne Cocktails in Casablanca (1942)

Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) in the Thin Man movies drinks Champagne Cocktails.

Bette Davis orders one in the 1943 movie, Old Acquaintance.

General Sternwood in Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep, who requests his with "a third of a glass of brandy under the Champagne and the Champagne cold as Valley Forge. Colder if you can get it."

In the movie 1947 film Lured, Lucille Ball's character orders one during intermission at the concert and George Sanders' character walks up and says "Make that two.".