Kern, Hammerstein and Harbach originally wrote "I Won't Dance" for the 1934 London musical Three Sisters.
[1] However, Fields rewrote nearly all of the lyrics, making the song more playful and suggestive by having the narrator refuse to dance because "I know that music leads the way to romance".
The song is anachronistically used as a musical number performed by Felicia Day in the television film biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warm Springs, which largely takes place in the year 1924.
The version of the song by Frank Sinatra was in a scene in the movie What Women Want, where the character Nick, played by Mel Gibson, is dancing with a coat hanger.
The song was performed on The Muppet Show Episode 34 in a scene where Miss Piggy asks Kermit the Frog to dance.