Legacy
- In Grease, Rizzo remarks, "To you from me, Pinky Lee!", after she throws Kenickie's milkshake in his face.
- Gene Kelly plays dancing comic Pinky Benson in What a Way to Go! (1964)
- Paul Reubens loosely based his Pee-wee Herman character on Pinky Lee, wearing a similar outfit and employing similar mannerisms.
- In a third season episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia Petrillo describes how her friend Lillian thinks "she is Pinky Lee."
- In a first season episode of Night Court, Dan Fielding remarks that Judge Stone's age is one of the things he never wonders about, "like is Pinky Lee still alive?", broadcast in 1984 the answer at the time, was yes.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)