"Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the musical Kismet (1953), credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest.
The song in the musical is a lovers' duet and describes the transcendent feelings that love brings to their surroundings.
[4] In Act 1 of the musical Kismet, the beautiful Marsinah is viewing the garden of a house her father wishes to buy.
Though she feels a strong draw to him she breaks from the song and asks him a mundane question about what flowers to plant.
He asks her to promise she'll keep her rendezvous, and she now takes up the song, singing that it was his face that had made her feel in paradise.
Billy Eckstine with the Hal Mooney Orchestra, Mose Allison, Peter Bernstein, Sarah Brightman, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Faith, Al Hirt,[8] Engelbert Humperdinck, Gordon MacRae, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Ray Conniff, Curtis Counce, Isaac Hayes, the Ink Spots, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Martin Denny, Wes Montgomery, André Rieu, Saint Etienne, Alexander Armstrong, George Shearing, Sun Ra, the Supremes, Della Reese, Lenny Welch and Toots Thielemans are among the other artists who have recorded cover versions of this standard.
In the film Breakfast of Champions (1999), based on the book of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the song is used as a recurring motif.