One For My Baby (and One More For The Road) - in Film and Television

In Film and Television

• Jane Russell sings it, wearing a metallic evening gown, in the Josef von Sternberg/Nicholas Ray film noir Macao (1952).
• "One for My Baby" is the theme song of the 1957-1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy.
• In the Twilight Zone episode "The Four of Us Are Dying", a woman sings a portion of the tune in a hotel lounge.
• The song was by sung by Bette Midler to Johnny Carson on the penultimate night of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Both Midler and Carson got caught up in the emotion of the song, and a heretofore unused camera angle on the set framed the two and the performance. It earned Midler that year's Emmy Award (1992) for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. The lyrics were adapted to suit the occasion - such as "And John I know you're getting anxious to close".
• Dianne Reeves' rendition of the song is featured throughout the closing credits of George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), and is available on the film's official soundtrack album.
• A piano rendition of the song is played in the background of a bar scene following the protagonist's wife leaving him in the film Invincible (2006).
• In the film Road House (1948), starring Richard Widmark, Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde, Lupino played a saloon piano player and singer. The song she sang, or talked, was "One for my baby and one more for the road."
• In the Vincent Price film The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), the song (sung by Scott Peters) was "performed" by "Dr. Phibes' Clockwork Wizards".
• Mary sings an a cappella version to Lou as a semi-audition for a talent show on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
• In Stephen King's TV version of The Shining (1997) - song is played in a bar scene near the end of the movie. Song is being played on a jukebox and the artist is unknown.
• Some of this song was sung solo by "Gramoo Sultenfuss" on "My Girl" when the senile grandmother interrupts a funeral.
• An upcoming episode of the USA Network TV show White Collar features characters Neal Caffrey and June, played by Matthew Bomer and Diahann Carroll singing a duet. Billy Dee Williams accompanies them on the piano.
• In the 1998 TV film The Rat Pack, the song is performed during the final scene by Michael Dees (with actor Ray Liotta who portrays Frank Sinatra, shown to appear singing in a Recording Studio).