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In the 1933 film Turn Back the Clock, The Three Stooges make an early cameo appearance and sing the song.
In 1950 film Two Weeks with Love, it was sung by Jane Powell and Ricardo Montalban.
The song was featured in the film "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953), and performed by Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp and others throughout the film.
The song was also featured in the film "The Producers" (1968), Zero Mostel puts a coin in the jukebox of the bar where he is having a drink with Gene Wilder.The title he selects is By The Light of the Silvery Moon. They both, accompanied by a drunkard, start singing the tune
The song's patter is parodied in a popular "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" Audience Participation line for the song Eddie (Rocky Horror song). lines like "By the light (not the dark but the light)" become lines like "From the day he was born (not the night but the day)" and "She tried in vain (not the artery but the vein)"
The song is featured in the second episode of Boardwalk Empire.
The song is featured in the film "18 Again!" (1988), and performed by George Burns, Red Buttons, and Charlie Schlatter.
The song is shortly featured in The Haunted Mansion (2003), performed by Shelby Grimm, Harry J. Campbell, William T. Lewis, Tim Reeder, and Bob Hartley.
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