If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)

The song is comically performed at the entertainment evening in the 1957 film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, set during World War II.

The song was incorporated into the score of the 1959 television version of the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, and sung by Tab Hunter and Jane Powell.

[15] David Abraham sings a line of this song in the movie Kotwal Saab (1977) to celebrate the news of marriage between his two paying guests.

Jeanette Nolan plays the first line on a piano and sings "If I was the only girl in the world..." to Steve Franken in the disaster movie Avalanche (1978).

The song was sung for wounded British soldiers by the characters Lady Mary Crawley (played by Michelle Dockery) in Series 2, Episode 4 of Downton Abbey, set in 1918 and broadcast in 2011.

[citation needed] The song is played as a solo piano instrumental by the character Malcolm Hamilton in the BBC Scotland soap, River City, at the end of the 3 July 2012 episode.