Night and Day (song) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

In film:

  • The Gay Divorcee (1934, sung by Fred Astaire; danced by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers)
  • The Singing Marine (1937)
  • Now, Voyager (1942)
  • Action in the North Atlantic (1943, Julie Bishop dubbed by Martha Mears)
  • Destination Tokyo (1943)
  • The Hard Way (1943, instrumental)
  • Reveille with Beverly (1943, Frank Sinatra)
  • Lady on a Train (1945, Deanna Durbin)
  • Night and Day (1946)
  • Desk Set (1957, Katharine Hepburn)
  • Evil under the Sun (1982)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  • Radio Days (1987)
  • September (1987, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Red Callender, Bill Douglass)
  • The Rocketeer (1991)
  • Jumanji (1995)
  • Le Jour et la nuit aka Day and Night (1997, Ella Fitzgerald)
  • Dream for an Insomniac (1998, Frank Sinatra)
  • The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998, Fred Astaire)
  • What Women Want (2000, The Temptations)
  • De-Lovely (2004, John Barrowman, Kevin Kline)
  • The instrumental version appears on the soundtrack of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).

On stage:

  • Gay Divorce (1932, Fred Astaire)

*Gay Divorce (1933, Fred Astaire, Claire Luce) London revival

  • Cole (1974, 1: instrumental, 2: Kenneth Nelson) London
  • Happy New Year (1980, John McMartin, Michael Scott)
  • A Swell Party (1991, Angela Richards) London revue

On television:

  • Ford Star Jubilee: You’re the Top (1956, George Chakiris, Sally Forrest) CBS.
  • The Muppet Show (1981, The Mummies) Episode 112.
  • Highlander (1995, Tamara Gorski) Canadian TV, Season 3, Episode 11: "Vendetta".
  • Friends (1997, Frank Sinatra) NBC sitcom Season 4, Episode 4 "The One with the Ballroom Dancing".
  • Chocolate com Pimenta (2003, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Bregman Orchestra) Brazilian TV.
  • The Cosby Show, season 2, episode 3.

In other media:

  • This song was mentioned in Stephen King's short story "1408".
  • This song featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on radio JNR – Jazz Nation Radio 108.5
  • This song featured in the video game Bioshock.

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