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
El Dorado (1966 film) and was actually filmed before "The War Wagon", but its release was delayed so that Paramount's "Nevada Smith" with Steve McQueen would not have to compete with a John Wayne film at the box office. "El Dorado" finally reached the theatres in June 1967, a month after "The War Wagon" had opened. Film footage from "El Dorado" was later incorporated into the opening montage of Wayne's final film, "The Shootist", to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's character. Director Don Siegel used no scenes from any film shot before 1948 in "The Shootist"s frontispiece even though Wayne's career as a leading