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    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 29 21:40:17 2024
    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)

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 29 12:29:59 2024
    Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:

    First Hitchcock film I ever saw: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). James Stewart and Doris Day.

    Great director and a film I haven’t seen, must correct that.

    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)

    A bad translation with very strong cultural currency; I can’t off the top of my
    head think of any other examples of this, though I’m sure they are some.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Mon Apr 29 15:00:36 2024
    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 sar� sar�. When I first learned what it was supposed
    to mean I thought it might be French (ignoring the gross
    mispronunciation of "Que").

    --
    Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
    in England until 1987.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Tue Apr 30 00:30:53 2024
    Ross Clark wrote:

    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)



    really? "Que Sera, Sera" is not good Spanish ???



    During shooting of this film, there's a nice trivia about
    (the special effects of )

    How the dying man had a disguise (blackface) on, which was scraped off when
    another man's hand scrapes his face...

    and how this was filmed.

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