Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan Himself". An episode of Perry Como's TV show did a parody titled "Golf Widow". A Muppet Show season 1 episode (aired on 22 November 1976) featured Rowlf the Dog and Sam Eagle singing the song, with Sam clearly embarrassed at having to sing the word 'tit' (also asking the meaning of "obdurate"). The song is played during the film "Music for Ladies in Retirement" (1941) In the 1971 film "Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?", Shelley Winters as the title character sings "Tit-Willow" just before she is murdered. In John Wayne's last movie "The Shootist", made in 1976, Wayne and Lauren Bacall
John Ford "How The West Was Won", the first non-documentary film to use the Cinerama wide-screen process. Ford's segment featured George Peppard, with Andy Devine, Russ Tamblyn, Harry Morgan as Ulysses S. Grant, and John Wayne as William Tecumseh Sherman. Also in 1962, Ford directed his fourth and last TV production, "Flashing Spikes", a baseball story made for the "Alcoa Premiere" series and starring James Stewart, Jack Warden, Patrick Wayne and Tige Andrews, with Harry Carey Jr. and a lengthy surprise appearance by John Wayne, billed in the credits as "Michael Morris". "Donovan's Reef" (Paramount, 1963) was Ford's last film with John