"The Academy Award-winning song ""Mona Lisa"", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film ""Captain Carey, U.S.A"", was a 1950 hit for which artist?"
Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song) Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song) "Mona Lisa" is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film "Captain Carey, U.S.A." (1950). The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait "Mona Lisa" painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950. Musical arrangement was handled by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra. The recording was originally the B-side of "The Greatest Inventor Of Them All." In an "American Songwriter" magazine interview, Jay Livingston recalled that the original
Jay Livingston Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times, in 1948 for the song "Buttons and Bows", written for the movie "The Paleface"; in 1950 for the song "Mona Lisa", written for the movie "Captain Carey, U.S.A."; and in 1956 for the song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," featured in the movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much". They also wrote "Tammy" for the movie "Tammy and the Bachelor" in 1957. Livingston and Evans wrote popular TV themes for shows including "Bonanza" and "Mister Ed". They also wrote the Christmas song "Silver Bells" in 1951,