In Film
- Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell danced to an instrumental version in Broadway Melody of 1940.
- Deanna Durbin sang it in Hers to Hold (1943).
- In the 1946 Porter biographical film Night and Day, Latin singer Carlos Ramirez performed this song.
- "Begin the Beguine" was referenced in the 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine in a conversation between the characters John and Jeremy.
- It was also sung by Sammy Davis Jr. in Moon Over Parador.
- Begin the Beguine was the chosen English title for Volver a Empezar (José Luis Garci, 1982), the first Spanish film to win an Academy Award in Hollywood for a foreign language movie. Garci includes another tribute to Cole Porter in another of his films, You're the One (2000).
- The song is featured in the 1989 documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, during the chapters in which Greenberg is drafted into the armed forces and in a part of the chapter about the relationship between Greenberg and his wife Carol.
- "Begin the Beguine" is sung by actress Melora Hardin in the South Seas Club scene in The Rocketeer (1991).
- An instrumental march arrangement appears on the soundtrack of Evil Under the Sun (1982).
- Sheryl Crow performs the song in De-Lovely (2004), a biographical film about Porter.
- Instrumental music played during a ballroom scene in the 2008 movie Australia includes "Begin the Beguine", performed by Australian clarinetist Andy Firth and the Ralph Pyle Big Band.
- In Hope and Glory, the song is sung by the character Dawn while her family is repairing windows broken during an air raid.
- It is played in The Josephine Baker Story (1991).
- It is used in Ballet Shoes (2007).
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