The Bishop’s Wife (1947) – Hugo Friedhofer [FLAC – full scans]

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70 years old now.

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Enjoy – Merry Christmas

Lovely – Thank you.

I hope this is a good movie! I’ll have to watch it!

I don’t know this movie yet, but I love these cheesy old films. 🙂

Anyway, it’s on my "Movies to watch" list. Thanks for sharing!

Merry Christmas! <3

I don’t know this movie yet, but I love these cheesy old films. 🙂

Anyway, it’s on my "Movies to watch" list. Thanks for sharing!

Same here!

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Wonderful movie, Thanks very much!

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Thanks Duke!
The original back cover can be found here: https://goo.gl/vswawN

Thank you for sharing! Merry Christmas =)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thank you very much! Merry Christmas!

Many thanks for this and Merry Christmas!

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Many thanks and Merry Christmas!!

I don’t know this movie yet, but I love these cheesy old films. 🙂

Anyway, it’s on my "Movies to watch" list. Thanks for sharing!

Merry Christmas! <3

It is probably one of three BEST Christmas films EVER made.

thank you merry Christmas

,,and happy new year, dear!
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Thank you!

Sorry, I don’t wat to be ungrateful but the booklet is not included, do you have it?

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Thanks so, so much. One of my favourite Christmas movies and a gorgeous score!

Thank you; this is a charming old movie, with great actors; I remember that I liked the score when I saw it !

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Sorry for the wrong Booklet information. Before I got the original CD I have had a CDR for which I made a custom cover. Maybe in 2 weeks I will be able to do scans from the original.

1. The film is based on a book published in 1928 by author Robert Nathan (PORTRAIT OF JENNIE). The book gets far more carried away with the relationship between the Angel and The Bishop’s Wife. The movie never caries it beyond flirtatious banter and wishful thinking. After all, in 1947 there were still film censors to please.

2. David Niven was never supposed to be the Bishop. He was cast at first to be Dudley, the angel. Roles were re-cast as Cary Grant came on board the project and he was not fond of the Bishop’s dialogue as written in the script. Being Cary Grant he saw the magic in the role of the angel and being Cary Grant he got his way. It was, in the end, an inspired choice.

3. The movie was made just a year after It’s A Wonderful Life – to which it has been compared for decades since. After all, it features an angel (without wings) and a central character fighting a miserly opponent and a bummer of a situation. Like It’s a Wonderful Life the movie is not expressly about Christmas – but has been considered a classic of Christmas for decades.

4. The movie was nominated for five Oscars and won one. It was not a big success at the box office. But like It’s A Wonderful Life it gained in popularity decades after it was made through constant Christmas-time replays on television. Working against The Bishop’s Wife at both the box office and in the Oscar race was another movie destined to become a Christmas classic: Miracle on 34th Street.

5. Cary Grant was a persnickety perfectionist on the set – and this clashed with an equally difficult-to-get-along with Loretta Young. In fact, they really couldn’t stand each other. It is a wonder that their chemistry bubbled up to the final film product. In one scene set in the Bishop’s office Cary grant stopped the filming when he declared that “since it’s supposed to be winter shouldn’t the windows look like it?” The cast had to wait to resume filming until the prop guys could quickly frost the windows.

6. Tragedy struck in the personal lives of both Niven and Grant just before film began. Cary Grant was famously close to the wealthy Howard Hughes, who at this time was hospitalized and not expected to live (he survived). But Niven’s task in filming came on the heels of even greater tragedy having lost his young wife unexpectedly due to an accident at a Hollywood party, leaving him a widower with two young children.

7. The film has strong Christian messaging and is considered by some to be the Protestant answer to the Catholic leaning films of Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary’s. In fact, The Bishop’s Wife quotes scripture as Dudley tells of the 23rd Psalm and the Bishop’s closing sermon is frequently used even today in many churches for its moving text.

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Late to the (Christmas) party, but thanks very much!

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