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The Bishop's Wife (also known as Cary and the Bishop's Wife) [5] is a 1947 American Christmas romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Henry Koster, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. The plot is about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.
He also had a credited role in another holiday movie, The Bishop's Wife (1947), starring Loretta Young, Cary Grant and David Niven. His film career slowed when he entered adulthood. He appeared in a number of TV shows including Spin and Marty and he made his last film in 1956. [2]
Karolyn Grimes (born July 4, 1940 [1]) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Zuzu Bailey in the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life . [ 2 ] She also played Debby Brougham in the 1947 film The Bishop's Wife .
She also starred in films such as Born to Be Bad (1934), Call of the Wild (1935), The Crusades (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), The Stranger (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), and Key to the City (1950). Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961.
[12] Beyond Tomorrow: 1940: The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together. [13] The Bishop's Wife: 1947: An angel helps a bishop to change his life and save his marriage before Christmas. [14] Black Nativity: 2013
His other notable films during this time period include A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), Enchantment (1948), The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), My Man Godfrey (1957), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Murder by Death (1976), and Death on the Nile (1978).
Edwards seemed older than she was and often portrayed a "kindly grandmother, imperious dowager, hardy pioneer wife, ill-tempered teacher and strict governess". [2] She remains perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the imperious mother of Mary Hatch ( Donna Reed ) in Frank Capra 's film classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) who tries to keep ...
However, when the bishop looks over the papers, he discovers that the purchase price carries a $25,000 mortgage, significantly more than the operating funds the sisters have available. He tells the sisters that he will have to cancel the contract, but at that moment, 11 more sisters and a chaplain arrive from France, having been previously ...