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"Paper Doll" was a hit song for the Mills Brothers
Mills Brothers

The Mills Brothers were a major African-American jazz and pop music vocal quartet of the 20th century producing more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records....
. In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 it would be the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 number one hit for twelve weeks, from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group, after a few years of declining sales.

The song has been named as one of the Songs of the Century
Songs of the Century

The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America , the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc....
. It appeared in the films The Execution of Private Slovik
The Execution of Private Slovik

The Execution of Private Slovik is a nonfiction book by William Bradford Huie, published in 1954, and an United States made-for-television movie that aired on NBC on March 13, 1974....
 and The Majestic
The Majestic

The Majestic is a 2001 in film Cinema of the United States drama film, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Jim Carrey and Martin Landau ....
 and in the British television miniseries The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed BBC television serial, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon. Jon Amiel directed....
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"Paper Doll" was a hit song for the Mills Brothers
Mills Brothers

The Mills Brothers were a major African-American jazz and pop music vocal quartet of the 20th century producing more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records....
. In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 it would be the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 number one hit for twelve weeks, from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group, after a few years of declining sales.

The song has been named as one of the Songs of the Century
Songs of the Century

The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America , the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc....
. It appeared in the films The Execution of Private Slovik
The Execution of Private Slovik

The Execution of Private Slovik is a nonfiction book by William Bradford Huie, published in 1954, and an United States made-for-television movie that aired on NBC on March 13, 1974....
 and The Majestic
The Majestic

The Majestic is a 2001 in film Cinema of the United States drama film, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Jim Carrey and Martin Landau ....
 and in the British television miniseries The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed BBC television serial, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon. Jon Amiel directed....
. Four lines of it are sung by Rodolfo in the first act of Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
's play A View from the Bridge
A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway....
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The song was written in 1915 by Johnny S. Black, whose greatest success would come with his song "Dardanella
Dardanella

"Dardanella" is a song that began life as a ballad with words by Fred Fisher, and put to the music written by Felix Bernard and Johnny S. Black in 1919....
," which sold 5,000,000 copies in a recording by bandleader Ben Selvin
Ben Selvin

Ben Selvin , son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music....
 in 1920, and a further 2,000,000 copies of sheet music
Sheet music

Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of musical notation; like its analogs?books, pamphlets, etc.?the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens....
. Black died in 1936, six years before his second greatest success, "Paper Doll," swept the country.