The Bishop's Wife

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bishop’s Wife, 1947.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bishop’s Wife, 1947.

Robert Osborne introduces The Bishop’s Wife, 1947.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bishop’s Wife, 1947.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Bishop’s Wife, 1947.

Introduction and comments following The Bishop's Wife, 1947, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Jeremy Arnold.

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Dudley (Cary Grant), whom we know to be an angel sent to help her husband, shares an unexpected gift for ice-skating with Julia (Loretta Young, title character) and Sylvester (James Gleason) in a famous scene from Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife, 1948.

Bishop Brougham (David Niven) sets an appointment with a wealthy patron, putting out his wife Julia (Loretta Young) and his new aide Dudley (Cary Grant), who has informed only the bishop that he's an angel, in Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife, 1948.

Having just bade troubled Christmas-shopping friend Julia (Loretta Young, title character) farewell, Professor Wutheridge (Monty Woolley) is mystified when Dudley (Cary Grant) appears to "renew" their acquaintance in Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife, 1948.

Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, stars of the romantic fantasy The Bishop's Wife (1947), introduce the...we'll let them explain.

After a failed fund-raiser, Julia (Loretta Young) and Bishop Brougham (David Niven) argue over his priorities in Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife, 1948, from a Robert Nathan story.

Julia (Loretta Young) and the enigmatic Dudley (Cary Grant, whom she doesn't know is actually an angel sent to help her husband) arouse then defuse suspicion on a lunch date at Michel's in Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife, 1948.

Dudley (Cary Grant),who has not informed anyone but the bishop (David Niven) that he's an angel, plays a song composed for the usually frosty Mrs. Hamilton (Gladys Cooper) on the harp in director Henry Koster's The Bishop's Wife, 1948, from a Robert Nathan story.