Film • The song plays during the opening credits for
John Ford's 1946 movie
My Darling Clementine, starring
Henry Fonda and
Victor Mature with
Cathy Downs as the title character. It also runs as a background score all through the movie. • The melody of this song was used as the theme song of the 1972 North Korean film
The Flower Girl and it was claimed that the composer was Kim Il-sung. • The song appears in the 1963 film
Hud, during a scene in which a group of townspeople sing it together before a screening at the local cinema. • The song appears in the television series
Outlander (TV series), Season 5, Episode 7. • The song is sung by
Gene Autry in the 1949 western D'Angelo, Mike.
The Big Sombrero. • In the 2025 film
The Long Walk, the participants, in the latter part of the competition, break out into singing the song, as a way to cope with their circumstances. • Throughout all the 2022 biographical film , based on the life of Japanese prisoner of war , who was interned in a Siberian prisoner camp at the end of WWII, the song is heard, sometimes hummed, most of the time sung by the protagonist (
Kazunari Ninomiya)), the actress that plays Yamamoto's wife (
Keiko Kitagawa), or the actors that represent Yamamoto's campmates, some of whom delivered Yamamoto's last message to his family.
Television • In 1986, the song was turned into an episode of the TV series
Tall Tales & Legends entitled "My Darlin' Clementine" with
Shelley Duvall as Clementine and narration by
Randy Newman. • In 1992,
Peter Brooke,
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, sang "Darlin' Clementine" on
The Late Late Show on Irish television. Just hours earlier, eight people (seven of them civilians) had been killed in the
Teebane bombing. Brooke was forced to resign shortly after. • A mangled rendition of "Darling Clementine" is animated
coonhound Huckleberry Hound's signature tune, sung in most episodes of the cartoon series
The Huckleberry Hound Show. But it often ends up as "Oh my darling what's her name". • Episode 21 of Season 5 of
M*A*S*H, "Movie Tonight," is about an attempt by Father Mulcahy to screen Col. Potter's favorite movie, John Ford's
My Darling Clementine. (Supra.) As usual at the #4077th, things don't go smoothly, but eventually the staff manage to see the end of the film and they all sing "My Darling Clementine" as the credits roll.
Use of melody • The melody is used in "
Xīnnián Hǎo" (), a
New Year and
Chinese New Year song. • The melody is used in "Dip The Apple In The Honey", a
Jewish New Year song. • In the 1956 Hindi film
C.I.D., the melody of this song was used in the song "Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan". • The chorus to
Cher Lloyd's 2011 single "
Swagger Jagger" was seen as heavily borrowed from the melody of "Oh My Darling Clementine" • The melody is used in an Indonesian children's song "Makan Apa". • The melody is used in a drinking song in scandinavian student societies as "Full i dag og Full i morgen". • The melody is used in the ΕΟΚΑ song «
Ἦταν Πρώτη Ἀπριλίου» ("
It Was the First of April") by Christodoulos Papachrysostomou (Χριστόδουλος Παπαχρυσοστόμου) which commemorates the beginning of the EOKA uprising against British colonial rule in Cyprus on 1 April 1955.
Other • In the 1945 novel
Animal Farm by
George Orwell, the pig
Old Major explains his dream of an animal-controlled society, and ends by singing
Beasts of England. The song's tune is described in the novel as sounding like a combination of "
La Cucaracha" and "Oh My Darling, Clementine". ==References==