Moonlight Becomes You is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was written for the Paramount Pictures film Road to Morocco (1942) and published by Famous Music Corp. in New York on October 2, 1942. The arrangement was by Vic Schoen, Paramount's staff arranger. The best-known recording is by Bing Crosby, made on June 12, 1942 at Decca Studio in Los Angeles and released on November 19, 1942; it topped the Billboard charts that year. Other early recordings came from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, which reached No. 5 on Billboard, and Harry James and His Orchestra, which reached No. 15. Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra, with Kitty Kallen, also recorded the song in 1942. Later versions include recordings by Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra (1966) and Engelbert Humperdinck. French sources describe the song as a jazz standard.
