This song was sung in the 1943 movie The Hu­man Com­e­dy, star­ring Mick­ey Roo­ney, which was nom­in­at­ed for Acad­e­my Awards in five cat­e­gor­ies, in­clud­ing Best Pic­ture and Best Ac­tor. Will­iam Sa­roy­an won Best Orig­in­al Sto­ry for the film.  Sho­wal­ter wrote this tune, and words to the ref­rain, af­ter hear­ing from two friends whose wives had died, & asked Hof­fman to write the re­main­ing lyr­ics.