Re: Alfred Hitchcock died (29-4-1980)

On 2024-04-29 09:40:17 +0000, Ross Clark said:

First Hitchcock film I ever saw: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). James Stewart and Doris Day. In the Moroccan Embassy in London, Doris sings "Que Sera Sera". She looks very serious in the picture; her son is being held hostage somewhere in the embassy, and she is trying to use the song to make contact with him. It was a brand new song at the time, first performance in this film.
OK, here's a bit of language trivia: What is the origin of the phrase and what language is it supposed to be?
Read more here:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)

I've long supposed it to be Italian, even though it would be spelt differently: Che sarà sarà. When I first learned what it was supposed to mean I thought it might be French (ignoring the gross mispronunciation of "Que").
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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.