Days of Wine and Roses is the title of a 1958 television play written by JP Miller and aired on Playhouse 90, focusing on a couple's struggles with alcohol. The title came from a passage in Ernest Dowson's 1896 poem "Vitae Summa Brevis."
It was turned into a feature film in 1962, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, and with Miller adapting his own script. The title song, written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, won Academy Award for Best Original song. It would become a standard, recorded by Andy Williams, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey, and others.
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- In The Muppet Show episode 211, Dom DeLuise is amused that "someone sent roses to a P-I-G" and sings a line from the song as "the days of swine and roses."
- The Disney park stage show Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses parodies the title.
- According to Elmo's World: Families, "The Days of Swine and Roses" is the title of an Oinker Sisters album.