Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) actor Lawrence Dobkin and a win in the category of best actor for Melvyn Douglas in the lead role. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a 1967 television play broadcast as part of the "CBS Playhouse" series. The teleplay, its title taken from the first line of a Dylan Thomas poem, tells the story of a carpenter who has built his own home, but is now too old and infirm to live on his own and is sent to live in an old age home against his desires.
Fais do-do Fais do-do A fais do-do is a Cajun dance party, originating before World War II. According to Mark Humphrey, the parties were named for "the gentle command ('go to sleep') young mothers offered bawling infants." He quotes early Cajun musician Edwin Duhon of the Hackberry Ramblers: "Do-do" itself is a shortening of the French verb "dormir" (to sleep), used primarily in speaking to small children. The phrase is comparable to the American English "beddy-bye", and is embodied in an old French lullaby, a song sung to children when putting them down for the night. Its existence in Cajun culture as