The Stinger was widely mentioned in American motion pictures. Dudley the angel (played by Cary Grant) orders a round of Stingers while lunching with ladies from the church in the 1947 film "The Bishop's Wife". The evolving Stinger (used with green rather than white crème de menthe) forms a plot point in the 1948 film "The Big Clock", when George Stroud (Ray Milland) orders one and a random woman in the bar (Rita Johnson) already knows his name. In the 1950 Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame film "In a Lonely Place", Dix Steele's lush friend Charlie orders a Stinger at Paul's bar before the first fight scene. In the 1956 Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra film "High Society", Dexter-Haven's butler offers Stingers at lunch to those who over-indulged in champagne during the previous evening's party. Cary Grant again orders Stingers ("and keep them coming") as he tries to tolerate character Alice Kratzner's (Jayne Mansfield) empty-headed babbling in the 1957 comedy film "Kiss Them for Me". Mr. Dobitsch (Ray Walston) instructs his Marilyn Monroe look-alike date (Joyce Jameson) in the 1960 film "The Apartment" to not spill the glasses of Stingers she is holding as they exit their cab and enter C.C. Baxter's (Jack Lemmon) apartment at night for a tryst. In the 1975 Warren Beatty film "Shampoo", at the Republican Party dinner scene Goldie Hawn says, "I'll have a stinger", to which Tony Bill replies, "Before dinner?" In the 1983 film "Gorky Park", William Hurt orders a Stinger, and Brian Dennehy makes a rude remark indicating that the drink is not reputable.