The Bishop’s Wife
The Bishop’s Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven. The plot is about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. It was remade in 1996 as The Preacher’s Wife starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Courtney B. Vance.
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The Bishop’s Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven. The plot is about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert Nathan. It was remade in 1996 as The Preacher’s Wife starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Courtney B. Vance. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for Best Director, Best Music, Best Film Scoring, Best Picture and Best Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
The Bishop’s wife was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the March 1, 1948, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Cary Grant and DavidNiven in their original roles. In the scene in which Dudley conducts the choir, Robert Mitchell Boys’ composition ‘Noël: Montez à Dieu’ was performed by the the Charles Choir. The song featured in the film had lyrics written by Nat King Cole, who also recorded it for it.
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