![]() ![]() ![]() The phrase "Que Sera, Sera" came from a movie called The Barefoot Contessa, where the character Rossano Brazzi's family motto was "Che Sera, Sera." The motto in the film was Italian, but Evans and Livingston switched the "Che" to "Que" because more people spoke Spanish in the US. (this appears in Zollo's book Songwriters On Songwriting) It should have a foreign title because Jimmy Stewart is a roving ambassador and he goes all over the world." The song was also included in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much. He said, 'I can tell you what it should be about. Hitchcock said that since Doris Day was a singer, they needed a song for her. It was the only time an agent got us a job that I can remember. ![]() But MCA, the agency, was so powerful that they said if he wanted Jimmy Stewart he would also have to take Doris Day and Livingston and Evans. And he told us that he had Doris Day in his picture, whom he didn't want. Livingston told Paul Zollo in 1987: "We got a call from Alfred Hitchcock. In the film, she was putting her young son to bed. Doris Day sang this in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. This was written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, who wrote many songs for movies when they were under contract with Paramount Pictures.
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