Begin The Beguine - in Film

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).