"The only people who grow old were born old to begin with."

And now, my second classic holiday pick.

A Very Vintage Christmas post #3.

(And it's 21 days til Christmas, in case you were wondering.)

The Bishop's Wife

1947

Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven

A bishop by the name of Henry Brougham (Niven) is involved in the controversial building of a new cathedral in his town.When times become hard, he prays that God would provide him with guidance. His prayer is answered in the form of an angel named Dudley (Grant), who reveals his true identity to Henry in order to gain Henry's trust and prove he is there to help.

Although Henry was wanting help specifically with the cathedral, Dudley isn't there to help get the building project done. He's there to offer guidance of a more personal nature, to Henry and those people who surround him, and have been feeling neglected because of Henry's obsession with the cathedral. People like Henry's wife, Julia (Young).

Dudley goes about trying to show Henry what is truly important in life, which he hasn't been paying attention to. He befreinds everybody in town, and everyone loves him. He uses his influence to get people in Henry's church to donate money to important causes, but not to help build the cathedral.Dudley helps save an older church in town, rather than focus his attention on building a new one. He even redecorates the Brougham's home for Christmas. Henry doesn't like Dudley to begin with, but when Dudley starts spending more and more time with Julia, who has been feeling neglected and sad, Henry becomes jealous and angry. He resolves to confront Dudley, so that he will leave. When he does, Dudley realizes that his job is done, and that Henry and Julia are still in love and back on track.He promises to leave and never return.

Once Dudley departs, he is erased from their memories, and Henry delivers a Christmas Eve sermon that he believes he wrote, but was really written for him by an angel.

I hope you guys will enjoy this movie.I think it's great.It's more serious than something like The Man Who Came to Dinner, but it still has a good deal of humor in it, and it's all about rediscovering what the true meaning of what Christmas is, and what the important things in life are.

View the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j063r4O33OE

And you can actually watch the whole movie here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLXrdeoenJ8

And you can price/buy it on Amazon or Turner Classic Movies.

Alright, so, according to the A Very Vintage Christmas schedule, I won't do another post til Thursday, but I think I have something extra up my sleeve that should be up on Tuesday.

So, stay tuned for that.

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