Father Goose (film)

Father Goose
Father Goose
	Film poster
Directed by	Ralph Nelson
Written by	Peter Stone; Frank Tarloff
Based on	A Place of Dragons; short story; by S. H. Barnett
Produced by	Robert Arthur
Starring	Cary Grant; Leslie Caron
Cinematography	Charles Lang
Edited by	Ted J. Kent
Music by	Cy Coleman
Production; company	Granox Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 10, 1964;
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$12.5 million

Father Goose is a 1964 American Technicolor romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title is a play on the children's fiction character of "Mother Goose," which is used as a code name assigned to the coast watcher character played by Grant. Based on a story A Place of Dragons by Sanford Barnett,^[2]^[3] the film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It introduced the song "Pass Me By" by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, later recorded by Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and others.

^ Box Office Information for Father Goose. The Numbers. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^ "OBITUARIES : Sanford Barnett, 79; Writer Won Oscar". Los Angeles Times. 16 April 1988. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
^ "My Father's Oscar". 19 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2021.