"Bishop Henry Brougham" (David Niven) is having a problem. Essentially, he wants to build a new cathedral for a church but a wealthy widow named "Mrs. Hamilton" (Gladys Cooper) wants to have it named and in honor for her late husband. Naturally, Bishop Brougham is opposed to this on the grounds that it is too crass and commercialistic. However, there are no other donors wanting to step up and he knows that if he is going to get the necessary funds he has to do it during the holiday season when people are more charitable. Otherwise, if he wants to get it built he will have to capitulate to Mrs. Hamilton's demands. Not knowing what else to do he prays about it and when he looks around an angel named "Dudley" (Cary Grant) appears. Unfortunately, the Bishop doesn't particularly care for Dudley's mannerisms and his concern transforms into distrust and suspicion when Dudley begins to take his wife, "Julia Brougham" (Loretta Young) all over town. And it's this tension between the two of them that makes this movie so funny. Yet, while I liked the performance of Cary Grant for the most part, I didn't especially care for the manner in which Dudley began to behave in a romantic fashion toward Julia. It just didn't feel right. But that aside, it was still a nice movie overall which viewers might want to check out some time during the holidays.
Review of The Bishop's Wife
