Comedian Harry Langdon performed the song in his 1930 short "The Fighting Parson", in a variant on his vaudeville routine originally performed in blackface. Mae West inserted her ballad in her successful Broadway play "Diamond Lil." West sang the ballad again in her 1933 Paramount film "She Done Him Wrong", which takes its title from the refrain, substituting genders. She also sang it many years later (1978) on the CBS television special "Back Lot U.S.A." The song was used in the 1932 film "Red-Headed Woman", in a scene where actress Jean Harlow's character is drinking and lamenting having been jilted by her married lover. It is also sung by a river boat crew in "Bed of Roses", a film released the following year. Yvonne De Carlo sings the song while masquerading as an opera singer in the 1949 film "The Gal Who Took the West". Moira Kelly sings it in the 1996 film "".