The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Academy Awards, USA 1948

Won Oscar	Best Sound, Recording Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
Nominated Oscar	Best Picture Samuel Goldwyn Productions
	Best Director Henry Koster
	Best Film Editing Monica Collingwood
	Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Hugo Friedhofer

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM)

Cary Grant is an angel responding to a bishop's plea for help to build a new cathedral. Instead, he tries to save the bishop's marriage to Loretta Young by taking her out on the town. In an unintentionally hilarious scene, Grant's and Young's doubles are shown ice skating with abandon, with Grant's double in particular much shorter than the real one and wearing an obvious mask. Well, the bishop eventually gets wise to what's going on and forces Grant back to wherever he came from, learning a valuable lesson along the way. Good Christmas atmosphere, but hard to take seriously.