The character Norma recites this poem in Steinbeck's 1947 Novel, "The Wayward Bus". It is recited in full within the film’s introduction, explaining the origins of a wishing star that fell to Earth, and ultimately acts as a magic incantation to grant the titular “Last Wish” of whoever recites it atop the star. The poem appears as a major plot point of the 2022 animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The full poem is quoted in the 1995 animated film " The Pebble and the Penguin". Recited by Sabrina Spellman as she wishes for Sabrina Morningstar's safety. “Star Light, Star Bright” is also found in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four on Netflix in the fifth episode of the season. Cheese’s Out of this World show tape in 2014, the character Helen Henny recites the full poem in one of her lines. They also play an exit music for those shows. This song is played in Disney Parks Fireworks Shows Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams and Remember. The rhyme appears in the 1966 Star Trek (original series) episode The Conscience of the King as a poem "almost as old as the stars themselves". In Richard Scarry's Best Sing-Along Mother Goose Video Ever!, Mother Cat sings "Star Light, Star Bright" to Huckle Cat, then Huckle Cat says the last two lines of the lullaby. The Angel in "The Bishop's Wife" (film, 1947, with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven and Monty Woolley) quotes the first line and tells the Bishop's Wife that she should make a wish. The character Russ Raymond sang it in the beginning of the movie. The rhyme was turned into a song in Abbott and Costello's "In the Navy". The rhyme appears in full in the 1928 film The Patsy When the character Patricia Harrington, played by Marion Davies, wishes to be "beautiful and seductive". The character Geppetto recites the full poem in the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio, wishing for the titular puppet character to become a real boy. The song and tradition seem to have reached Britain by the early twentieth century and have since spread worldwide. Wishing on the first star seen may also predate this rhyme, which first began to be recorded in late nineteenth-century America. The superstition of hoping for wishes granted when seeing a shooting or falling star may date back to the ancient world. Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight. The lyrics usually conform to the following: It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16339. " Star Light, Star Bright" is an English language nursery rhyme. For the science fiction story collection by Alfred Bester, see Star Light, Star Bright (book) and Star Light, Star Bright (short story).
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