Referenced By / Sweet Smell of Success

Film

• The musical refrain repeated throughout is borrowed almost note-for-note in Boogie Nights.
• Diner: One of the minor characters quotes dialogue from this movie all the time, to the main characters' annoyance.

Literature

• In There's More Than One Way Home, Alex asks Anna if she's heard of Walter Winchell. Anna tells him that J. J. Hunsecker was based on Winchell.

Live-Action TV

• Law & Order: Criminal Intent once referenced the movie with a victim's death, down to the line "I love this dirty town".
• The press agent in Matlock is also named Sidney Falco.

Music

• The rock band Kitty Kat Stew has a song called "Cookie Full of Arsenic"

Newspaper Comics

• Bloom County named one character after Steve Dallas, though while looking like him, is the personality opposite.

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