The Comeback Story (1953–1954), explaining her attempts to battle colon cancer, which thereafter still claimed her life. In 1952, she appeared as herself in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1975, Susan Clark portrayed Zaharias in a biographic TV movie titled Babe. The 1987 science fiction novel Countersolar! by Richard A. Lupoff featured Zaharias as a character serving as part of an interplanetary expedition alongside Josh Gibson and Albert Einstein on a spacecraft built by Jack Northrop. In Jenifer Levin's 1993 novel The Sea of Light, main character Mildred "Babe" Delgado is named after Zaharias by her mother Barbara, who considered Zaharias to be "my only hero". In 2007, Carolyn Gage began work on Babe, a full-chorus, full-orchestra musical about Zaharias. In June 2011, Little, Brown published a major biography of Zaharias, Wonder Girl, by author Don Van Natta Jr. Family Guy has made numerous references to Babe Zaharias being one of the greatest Americans to have lived. In season 21 of The Simpsons, Marge dresses up as Zaharias for her Charity Chicks calendar with a history theme. Marge also refers to her as the female Tiger Woods of the 20th century. On August 26, 2014, her story was portrayed in a "Sport Heroes" episode of the Comedy Central series Drunk History; Didrikson Zaharias was played by Emily Deschanel. Amateur wins Note: This list is incomplete. 1935 Texas Women's Amateur 1946 U.S. Women's Amateur, Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur 1947 North and South Women's Amateur, British Ladies Amateur Professional wins LPGA Tour wins (41) 1940 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur) 1944 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur) 1945 (1) Women's Western Open (as an amateur) 1947 (2) Tampa Open, Titleholders Championship (as an amateur) 1948 (3) All American Open, World Championship, U.S. Women's Open 1949 (2) World Championship, Eastern Open 1950 (8) Titleholders Championship, Pebble Beach Weathervane, Cleveland Weathervane, 144 Hole Weathervane, Women's Western Open, All American Open, World Championship, U.S. Women's Open 1951 (9) Ponte Verde Beach Women's Open, Tampa Women's Open, Lakewood Weathervane, Richmond Women's Open, Valley Open, Meridian Hills Weathervane, All American Open, World Championship, Women's Texas Open 1952 (5) Miami Weathervane, Titleholders Championship, Bakersfield Open (tied with Marlene Hagge, Betty Jameson and Betsy Rawls), Fresno Open, Women's Texas Open 1953 (2) Sarasota Open, Babe Zaharias Open 1954 (5) Serbin Open, Sarasota Open, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Tournament, U.S. Women's Open, All American