It’s fun for willow collectors to see their favorite pattern in movies and on TV. In fact, there is no other china pattern that has been used more as a prop than willow! 

 

This list is continually updated as new spottings are found. It was initially started by IWC members Ford Nashett and Irene Black. After Ford’s passing, Irene asked Jeff Siptak to take over maintaining the list.  

 

Have you spotted willow in a movie or on TV not listed here? Send an email to willowcollectors@yahoo.com and use “As Seen On” as a subject line. Include the movie or TV show title and perhaps a few words about the willow seen and where it was. The major star(s) and year are nice to have as well. Example: The Munsters, they used willow in the kitchen or King’s Row, 1942, with Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan.

 

 

Movies

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101 Dalmatians

A Christmas Carol – George C. Scott, willow platter on display in the Cratchit home

The Actress – 1953, Spencer Tracy

A Farewell to Arms – 1957, Rock Hudson, kitchen scene

After Life – S3, E5

All the King’s Men – Broderick Crawford

Andy Hardy series – Mickey Rooney

The Attic – 1980

Ball of Fire – 1941

Ballad of Andy Crocket

Bedknobs and Broomsticks - 1971, Angela Lansbury

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Dolly Parton

Beverly Hills Wedding – Hallmark, 2021

Big-Hearted Herbert – 1934, Aline MacMahon

Blues in the Night – 1941, Pricilla Lane

The Boogie Man Will Get You – 1940, Boris Karloff

Broken Arrow

Butterfield 8 – Elizabeth Taylor

Calamity Jane – 1953

Captain Courageous – 1937, Spencer Tracy

Cat Balleau

The Change-Up – 2011, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, dinner table

The Cheyenne Social Club – Jimmy Stewart, red willow 

Christmas Carol – 1939 

Christmas in Connecticut – 1945

Clue – 1985

Cowboy Canteen

Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case – 1943, Lynn Merrick

Crime of Passion – 1957, Barbara Stanwyck

Crown for Christmas – Hallmark, 2015, castle kitchen

Dangerous When Wet – 1953, Esther Williams

Dark Victory – 1939

The Devil-Doll  – 1936

Double Dynamite – Frank Sinatra & Groucho Marx 

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet – 1940, Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – 1931, Ridgways tea set

Driving Miss Daisy – 1989, Hope's dinner plate

El Dorado – red willow

Eve Knew Her Apples – 1945, Ann Miller

Every Girl Should Be Married

The Farmer’s Daughter – 1947, Loretta Young

Firecreek – James Stewart

First Men in the Moon – 1964

Five Card Stud

Five Easy Pieces – 1970, Jack Nicholson

Forever

Forsaken

Fort Apache – John Wayne

Frenzy – 1972, Alfred Hitchcock film

Friend & Lover – 1931, Adolph Menjou

Funny Farm

Gaslight

Get Out – 2017, willow cup to hypnotize man

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Gildersleeves Bad Day – 1943, Harold Perry

Great Expectations – 1946, John Mills

The Green Years – 1946

Guns of Diablo

Gypsy

The Hanging Tree

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – 1968

Hello Dolly

Hellraiser II

The Help

High Plains Drifter

High Chaparral

His Girl Friday – Spencer Tracy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – 2005

The Homesman – 2014 , Tommy Lee Jones

Hour of the Gun

The House That Dripped Blood

How Green was My Valley

How the West was Won

I’ll Wait for You – 1941

I Met My Love Again – 1938

Inspector Frost

I Remember Mama – 1948, Irene Duane

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Juno and the Paycock

The King's Man – 2021

King’s Row – 1942 , Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan

The Last Angry Man – 1959

The Last Sunset – Kirk Douglas, 1961, brown willow

Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean – Paul Newman

Legend of the Bog – willow cup in abandoned cabin

Limelight – 1952, Charlie Chaplin

The Little Mermaid – 2003, chipped willow vase in Ariel’s grotto

The Little Minister – Katharine Hepburn

Living on Love – James Dune

The Lone Ranger

Long Days Journey into Night

Look in an Window (Pink)
Love Me Tender – Elvis, 1956

Lust for Life

Magic – 1978 - Anthony Hopkins

Man Without a Star – Kirk Douglas, 1965

McLintock – 1963, John Wayne

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Moving On

Munity on the Bounty – 1935

Munster, Go Home! – ashtray in bar

My Fair Lady – Barbra Streisand, willow on cart

Murder Most Foul – pitcher & bowl

Murder She Said, with Margaret Rutherford

My Son, the Vampire – 1952 

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation – 1989, Christmas dinner scene

National Velvet

New Orleans

None But the Lonely Heart – 1944

Old Dark House – 1932

One Mysterious Night – 1944, Chester Morris

Open Range – black willow

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes – 1945, Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien

The Penalty – Edward Arnold

The Petty Girl – 1950, Robert Cummings

Poor Things – 2023, Emma Stone

The Power of the Whistler – 1945, Richard Dix

The Pumpkin Eater – 1964 - Anne Bancroft

The Quite Man – John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara

Rage at Dawn  – 1955

Rebecca

The Reckless Moment – 1949

The Red Pony – 1949, Myrna Loy

Red Sun

Return to Lonesome Dove

Ride a Crooked Trail

Rocky

The Russians are Coming – 1966, Carl Reiner

Saturday Night & Sunday Morning – 1960

Scarlet Street

Scrooge – George C. Scott, Tiny Tim's house contains willow

The Secret Garden – 1949, Margaret O'Brien

Shoot Out at Big Sage

Showdown at Boot Hill

Silver Bells – 2005, Hallmark

Sleepy Hollow – 1999

The Small Voice – 1948, – Howard Keel, willow on dresser

The Snake Pit – 1948, Olivia De Haviland

The Southerner – 1945, Zackary Scott

Strike Up the Band

Support Your Local Sheriff – 1932, Irene Dunn, cooked fish in vegetable bowl, possibly Ridgways

Symphony of Six Million

The Thin Man – Dick Powell

The Tingler – 1959, Vincent Price

The Unsinkable Molly Brown – 1964, Debbie Reynolds

The Virginian – 1946, Joel McCrea

The Westerner – 1940, Ann Miller

The Whistler – 1944, Richard Dix

The Wild Wild West

The Wolf Man – 1941, Lon Chaney, Jr. 

The Woman in Green – 1945, Basil Rathborn

Three Faces of Eve

Thrill of Romance – 1945, Van Johnson

To Sir With Love – 1967

True Grit – 1969, John Wayne, Glen Campbell

To Each His Own

Uncle Buck – John Candy

Uncle Vanya – 1958

Vicious – 2016, Booths tea set

Viva Las Vegas – Elvis Presley

War of the Worlds – 1953

We’re No Angles

When the Bough Breaks

White Heat – 1949, James Cagney

Yankee Doodle Dandy – James Cagney

You Can’t Take It With You – Jimmy Stewart

Young Buffalo Bill – 1940, Roy Rogers

Z is for Zachariah – 2015, hutch and plate rack

            

            

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TV Shows

            

​The Andy Griffith Show – Aunt Bee’s kitchen, sheriff’s office, Thelma Lou's dining room, town shop windows

As The World Turns (soap opera)

As Time Goes By

Bewitched

Blue Bloods

Bob Hearts Abishola – 2019

The Bob Newhart Show 

Bonanza – red willow

The Brady Bunch

Bridgerton

The Carol Burnett Show

The Cosby Show – metal willow platter in kitchen

Crown for Christmas – Hallmark, 2015

Dallas, original – Miss Elly’s kitchen was done in willow

Dark Shadows

Dharma & Greg – 1997, platter in Greg's parent's kitchen

The Dick Van Dyke Show – "The Bad Old Days," 1962

The Donna Reed Show – willow toby in kitchen

Father Dowling Mysteries

Feud – FX series, 2017, various scenes

Gilmore Girls – teapot used in dining room at the Dragonfly Inn

The Golden Girls – flashback scene of Rose’s kitchen in St. Olaf, blue willow wallpaper

Grantchester – PBS Masterpiece Theater, 2020, S5/E4, willow in sidewalk sale

Guiding Light (soap opera)

Gunsmoke

Happy Days  – 1980, S8/E3, "Dreams Can Come True," blue willow plates on the bar wall at Arnold's

The Haunting

Home Town – HGTV

I Love Lucy – willow plate light sconces in the Mertz’s apartment, various episodes

Kung Fu

Laramie

Lassie – 1954

Last of Summer Wine

Laugh-In

Law & Order – tureen was used as hiding place for murder weapon

Leave It to Beaver

The Librarian

Little House on the Prairie

The Lone Ranger

Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC)      

The Lost Kitchen                             

Lovejoy (BBC)

The Lucy Show – “Ethel Merman and the Boy Scouts,” Part 2; also in “Lucy The Stuntman”

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Mary Tyler Moore Show – dinner party scene

M*A*S*H

Matlock 

The Monkees

The Munsters – kitchen

Murder She Wrote

Newhart – 1986, Booths tea set in “Thanksgiving for the Memories”

Quincy, M.E. 

Reservation Dogs – FX Productions

The Rifleman

Sanford & Son – S1, E1, pink Japan plate on shelf

Schitt's Creek

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon – 1956, S1/E16, plate in fur trader's office

The Story of Benjamin Franklin (PBS)

The Three Stooges Columbia Short, “I Can Hardly Wait” – 1943

Upstairs, Downstairs

Victoria – Booths willow

A Waltons Thanksgiving – dinner table

Webster

Will & Grace – a willow-ish patterned upholstered chair, Karen wears willow blouse

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On Broadway

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The Best Man – Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, 2012, a Japan willow tea set