It's Only a Paper Moon (song)

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Published in 1933, "It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose^[1]. The song was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1938 and by many others since and has become a pop and jazz standard.

The song was included in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which opened in 1947.

The song lent its title to the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film Paper Moon and the subsequent television series of the same name.

The song, with a newly composed counter-melody by Kander and Ebb, is a musical segment in the film Funny Lady, starring Barbra Streisand and James Caan.

The song was used in the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine in an episode with the same title as the song.

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