Bonne Nuit
(Goodnight)
1951


Recording History
Bing Crosby, Decca, L6320, 1951
Dean Martin, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening/Bonne Nuit, single, Capitol, F-1703
Paul Weston and Norman Luboff, Columbia Records, 39465, 1951
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Highlights
  • Written for the 1951 Paramount Pictures film Here Comes The Groom directed by Frank Capra, starring Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone and Alexis Smith.
  • Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has five days to win back his former fiancĂ©e, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
  • Here Comes The Groom was released September 20, 1951.
  • Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley and Phil Harris all have cameo roles in this film.
  • Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series that ran for more than twenty years, broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of Here Comes The Groom on September 12, 1952. Jane Wyman reprised her onscreen role.
  • Here Comes The Groom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1952.
  • Bing Crosby was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor-Comedy/Musical in 1952 for Here Comes The Groom.
  • Here Comes The Groom was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical in 1952.
  • BONNE NUIT is performed in the film by Bing Crosby.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1951
Lyrics
Go to sleep, my darling,
Soon your dreams will come in sight.
Your day is done, my darling.
Now, goodnight, may you have
A good night tonight.
 
Bonne nuit, good night,
Just dream away the dawn will light
A bright new day.
Be cheerful in your sleepytime pray’r.
The tearful never get anywhere,
So don’t despair.

Bonne nuit, my love, dream of a land
Where stars above fall in your hand,
And someday we’ll find this where and when.
Bonne nuit, goodnight, ‘til then.
 
Bonne nuit, my love, dream of a land
Where stars above fall in your hand,
And someday we’ll find this where and when.
Bonne nuit, goodnight, ‘til then.
 
BONNE NUIT as sung by Bing Crosby in the 1951 Paramount Pictures film Bonne Nuit. Music and words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. (Special Picture Release)