Back when I was the distaff side of "a little shaver," as the old writers would say, this film about a bishop who is losing his faith in a race to erect a magnificent cathedral, his loving wife who sees, like Scrooge's fiancee, "his noble aspirations falling away" day after day, and the unconventional angel who comes to help them ran every Christmas on one channel or the other, usually one of the hard-to-see UHF channels with all the static that did not dim the movie's quirky humor or message one bit. I remembered the sermon of the empty stocking long after the old UHF channels disposed of black-and-white films.
Thankfully cable, and then DVD, brought this marvelous film back to us. Here are some links about
The Bishop's Wife.
Ten Things You Did Not Know About The Bishop's Wife - My Merry Christmas
TCM's Summary of The Bishop's Wife
Classic Movies Review of The Bishop's Wife
25 Days of Christmas: The Bishop's Wife
The Case for Global Film: The Bishop's Wife
Fuse Film Commentary: The Bishop's Wife
Tropes in The Bishop's Wife
Discussion about The Bishop's Wife
"Family Values": 1940s Propaganda in The Bishop's Wife
"Conversation Over Chai": The Bishop's Wife Review
"Once Upon a Screen": The Bishop's Wife Review
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