In Modern Culture
Both Toklas and Stein are referred to in both the stage play Mame and its film version, Auntie Mame. In a lyric of the song "Bosom Buddies," Vera Charles declares: "But sweetie, I'll always be Alice Toklas, if you'll be Gertrude Stein."
The 1968 Peter Sellers movie I Love You, Alice B. Toklas was named for Toklas's cannabis brownies, which play a significant role in the plot.
The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, a political organization founded in 1971 in San Francisco, is a namesake of Toklas.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance in Portland, Oregon, offers the "Alice B. Toeclips Awards" as the signature event of its annual fundraiser.
Samuel Steward, who met Toklas and Stein in the 1930s, edited Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1977) and wrote two mystery novels featuring Stein and Toklas as characters: Murder Is Murder Is Murder (1985) and The Caravaggio Shawl (1989).
Toklas appears in the book title and in one of the essays in Otto Friedrich's 1989 book, The Grave of Alice B. Toklas and Other Reports from the Past (New York, Henry Holt). The chapter includes a sensitive interview with the elderly Alice.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in 1989 to rename a block of Myrtle Street between Polk Street and Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco as Alice B. Toklas Place, since Toklas was born one block away on O'Farrell Street.
The Stein and Toklas relationship is most recently depicted in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris.
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