Polka dot arrangements by Gil Evans and others and notable recordings by Lester Young, Sarah Vaughn and many others. The 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical film The Gang's All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, featured a large production number "The Polka-Dot Polka". The song was written by Harry Warren and Leo Robin, referencing the 19th Century Polka Dot craze in the lyric, and sang by Alice Faye with the Busby Berkeley dancers. Polka dot Polka dot is a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size. Polka dots are most commonly seen on children's clothing, toys,
Polka-dot paint Polka-dot paint Polka dot paint is a paint which produces a polka dot pattern. The paint is traditionally an impossible object, and the subject of a fool's errand prank played upon apprentices in the decoration or construction trade, who are sent to obtain a bucket of polka-dot paint. A polka-dot paint effect has been produced in stage magic, and in the 1950s a polychromatic paint was invented which produced a dotted effect when dry. In the United States several magicians invented a trick in which they demonstrating painting with polka-dot paint. Prior to the performance, an object is pre-painted in