Bedtime Story is a 1964 American comedy film starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones.

Lawrence Jameson is a refined, elegant con artist living in the French Riviera town of Beaumont-sur-Mer, where he masquerades as the deposed prince of a small European country, seducing wealthy women into donating money and jewellery to his revolutionary "cause".

Meanwhile, Corporal Freddy Benson is a small-time operator in the US Army stationed in West Germany, conning his way into the hearts and finances of young women with sob stories about his sick grandmother.

Lawrence, believing Freddy's "poaching" will endanger his own activities, attempts to distract him into leaving town, and when that fails, arranges for his arrest.

He wins Janet's affections with a sad story and convinces her that he needs $25,000 to pay for treatment by a celebrated Swiss psychiatrist, Dr. Emil Schaffhausen.

Lawrence discovers that Janet is not a major heiress after all, but merely the winner of the American Soap Queen contest, and that she intends to sell all her belongings to pay for Freddy's treatment.

Lawrence gracefully accepts defeat, but Freddy surprisingly has had a change of heart: he could not take advantage of Janet, and realises that his feelings for her are genuine.

Lawrence reflects that, in the end, Freddy is happier than he, but as he sees his next mark, a ravishing and extremely wealthy blonde, concludes that "a man must learn to live with his misery".

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "Bedtime Story is a very funny picture, and Mr. Brando is a first-class farceur.