{"id":76722,"date":"2022-12-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/have-you-heard-about-cary-and-the-bishops-wife\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:00:00","slug":"have-you-heard-about-cary-and-the-bishops-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/have-you-heard-about-cary-and-the-bishops-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Heard About Cary and the Bishop\u2019s Wife?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Journalists love using anniversaries to write about their favorite things\u2014bonus points if that anniversary is divisible by 25. All of this is to say, I\u2019m fully aware of the stereotype I\u2019m fulfilling in taking advantage of the 75th anniversary of The Bishop\u2019s Wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n

TBW<\/em> was released a year after It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> to a similarly muted response at the box office. But while Jimmy Stewart\u2019s Christmas film eventually became a classic, The Bishop\u2019s Wife<\/em> has faded from public memory. Featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood history\u2014Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven all in the same film!\u2014and receiving almost universally positive reviews, this heartwarming, anti-materialist, for-the-whole-family Christmas flick fell short of financial expectations because it was explicitly religious.<\/p>\n

Niven plays the bishop, Henry Brougham, and Young plays his wife, Julia. The Broughams\u2019 marriage has been on the rocks since Henry was promoted to bishop and turned his attention to fundraising for a new cathedral. Henry prays for help\u2014expecting that help to be for the cathedral\u2014and God sends an angel in the form of Dudley (Cary Grant). Dudley is handsome and charming and much more interested in repairing the state of the Broughams\u2019 relationship than in helping Henry persuade the wealthy widow Mrs. Agnes Hamilton (Gladys Cooper) to donate to the cathedral fund. Hijinks occur, lessons are learned, and a merry Christmas is had by all. An atheist even converts!<\/p>\n

And yet, the word \u201cbishop\u201d appeared in the title, and audiences stayed away, thinking it was a \u201creligious film\u201d\u2014an amusing challenge to those who paint the era as a time of unified Christian nationalism.) Ticket sales increased only when the film was renamed Cary and the Bishop\u2019s Wife<\/em> and salaciously advertised with lines like \u201cHave you heard about Cary and the bishop\u2019s wife?\u201d But the damage was already done, and the movie was not widely viewed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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