Editing Lillie Langtry (section)

==Cultural influence and portrayals==
[[File:langtry cartoon.png|thumb|upright|Caricature of Langtry, from ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', Christmas 1890: The soap box on which she sits reflects her endorsements of cosmetics and soaps.]]
One of the most glamorous British women of her era, Langtry used her high public profile to endorse commercial products such as cosmetics and soap—an early example of [[celebrity endorsement]].<ref name="Pears"/> She used her famous ivory complexion to generate income, being the first woman to endorse a commercial product when she began advertising [[Pears (soap)|Pears soap]] in 1882.<ref name="Blaugrund 2011 p. 58" >{{cite book | last=Blaugrund | first=A. | title=Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer | publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-61423-093-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=66cjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 | access-date=9 June 2017 | page=58}}</ref> The [[Aestheticism|aesthetic movement]] in England became directly involved in advertising, and Pears (under advertising pioneer [[Thomas J. Barratt]]) recruited Langtry—who had been painted by aesthete artists—to promote their products, which included putting her "signature" on the advertisements.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fortunato |first1=Paul |title=Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |page=33}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Geoffrey |title=Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=81}}</ref>

In the 1944 Universal film ''[[The Scarlet Claw]]'', Lillian Gentry, the first murder victim, wife of Lord William Penrose and former actress, is an oblique reference to Langtry.<ref name="imdb " >{{IMDb name|486756}}</ref>

Langtry has been portrayed in two films. [[Lilian Bond]] played her in ''[[The Westerner (1940 film)|The Westerner]]'' (1940), and [[Ava Gardner]] in ''[[The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean]]'' (1972). Bean was played by [[Walter Brennan]] in the former, and by [[Paul Newman]] in the latter film.<ref name="imdb " />

In 1978, Langtry's story was dramatised by [[London Weekend Television]] and produced as ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'', starring [[Francesca Annis]] in the title role (Annis received the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress]]). Annis previously played Langtry in two episodes of [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]]'s ''[[Edward the Seventh]]''. [[Jenny Seagrove]] played her in the 1991 television film ''[[Incident at Victoria Falls]]''.<ref name="imdb " />

Langtry is a featured character in the fictional ''[[The Flashman Papers]]'' novels of [[George MacDonald Fraser]], in which she is noted as a former lover of arch-cad [[Harry Flashman]], who, nonetheless, describes her as one of his few true loves.<ref name="Fraser " >{{cite book|last=Fraser|first=George Macdonald|author-link=George MacDonald Fraser|title=Flashman and the Tiger|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|series=[[The Flashman Papers]]|date=1999|isbn=978-0007217229|oclc=62265058|title-link=Flashman and the Tiger}}</ref>

Langtry is suggested as an inspiration for [[Irene Adler]], a character in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] fiction of [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Christopher Redmond |title=Sherlock Holmes Handbook |publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd. |date=30 October 2009}}, p. 51</ref> In "[[A Scandal in Bohemia]]", Adler bests Holmes, perhaps the only woman to do so.

Langtry is used as a touchstone for old-fashioned manners in Preston Sturges's comedy ''[[The Lady Eve]]'' (1941), in a scene where a corpulent woman drops a handkerchief on the floor and the hero ignores it. Jean ([[Barbara Stanwyck]]) begins to describe, comment, and anticipate the events that we see reflected in her hand mirror: "The dropped kerchief! That hasn't been used since Lillie Langtry ... you'll have to pick it up yourself, madam ... it's a shame, but he doesn't care for the flesh, he'll never see it."<ref name="Pirolini " >Pirolini, Alessandro. ''The Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study'', McFarland & Co., 2010; {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4358-1}}<!-- page# --></ref>

Lillie Langtry is the inspiration for [[The Who]]'s 1967 hit single "[[Pictures of Lily]]", as mentioned in [[Pete Townshend]]'s 2012 memoir ''[[Who I Am (book)|Who I Am]]''.<ref name="Townshend2012 " >{{cite book|author=Townshend, Pete|title=Who I Am: Die Autobiographie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNJmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT125|date=29 November 2012|publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch eBook|isbn=978-3-462-30630-9|pages=125}}</ref> [[Dixie Carter]] portrays Langtry as a "songbird" and Brady Hawkes' love interest in [[Kenny Rogers]]' 1994 ''[[Gambler V: Playing for Keeps]]'', the last of the Gambler series for CBS that started in 1980. Langtry is depicted as a singer, not an actress, and Dixie Carter's costuming appears closer to Mae West than anything Langtry ever wore.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Gambler V|series=Gambler|date=2 October 1994}}</ref>

In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' 1994 episode "[[Burns' Heir]]", the auditions are held in the Lillie Langtry Theater on Burns' estate.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Burns' Heir|episode-link=Burns' Heir|series=The Simpsons|series-link=The Simpsons|date=14 April 1994|season=5|number=18}}</ref>

Langtry is a featured character in the play ''Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily'' by Katie Forgette. In this work, she is blackmailed over her past relationship with the Prince of Wales, with intimate letters as proof. She and Oscar Wilde employ [[Sherlock Holmes]] and Dr. Watson to investigate the matter.<ref>{{cite book|last=Forgette|first=Katie|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily|year=2008|publisher=Playscripts|url=http://www.playscripts.com/play/1636}}</ref>