Gordon a prairie oyster in jail. In 1935, Barbary Coast saw Edward G. Robinson offer Miriam Hopkins a prairie oyster on New Year's Day. In the 1936 Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Longfellow Deeds is offered a prairie oyster after a night on the town. In the 1937 film A Star is Born, Norman Maine (Fredric March) has a prairie oyster at the bar to cure his hangover when he spies Vicky Lester (Janet Gaynor) and begins a conversation. Goodbye to Berlin, the 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood mentions prairie oysters several times, where Sally and Chris drink them in Sally's room. Similar scenes also occur in Cabaret, the 1966 musical; as well as in the 1972 film, in which Sally Bowles regularly makes prairie oysters, remarking that they "work instantly, even on the most sinister hangovers." In The Palm Beach Story, the 1942 screwball comedy directed by Preston Sturges, Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) orders a prairie oyster at breakfast on the train with J.D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallée), who orders one too but asks for it "on the half-shell"). In the 1950 Patricia Highsmith novel Strangers on a Train, Charles Anthony Bruno has a prairie oyster to cure his hangover and ready himself to murder Miriam, the wife of a man he met on the train. In the 1959 film The Nun's Story, Gaby (Audrey Hepburn) is given the drink to aid her in recovery from suspected tuberculosis. In the 1959 film Pillow Talk, the main female character's maid, Alma, starts every day, hungover, with a drink of tomato juice, Tabasco and Worcester sauce. Towards the end of the film, the main male character's best friend makes him a drink to cure his hangover with "a lot of olive oil in it and two raw eggs", tomato juice, Tabasco and Worcester sauce. In Thunderball, the 1961 novel by Ian Fleming, prior to spending a fortnight at Shrublands ("Gateway to Health"), James Bond states that "there wasn't a week went by but that on at least one day I couldn't eat anything for breakfast but a couple of aspirins and a prairie oyster". In the 1972 film version of the musical Cabaret, Sally Bowles makes Brian Roberts a prairie oyster. She lists the ingredients and Brian queries "peppermint"? - it transpired she had served his prairie oyster in her toothpaste glass. In Season 2, episode 17 "The