THE BISHOP'S WIFE

I fell in love
with Cary Grant

when I was 9 -
Christmas time.

He was being
an angel.

A celluloid angel
but an angel nonetheless.

It was just after
my sister's death.

I had always hoped
that the Angel Grant would appear

and make her death
go away.

I waited year after year
hoping her death would

disappear
but the world

was always
the world

and held her death
within its living.

And here I am again
almost 64

...hoping

...crying.

*

To me this is the essence of my Christmas childhood and I waited each year for it to show and it would invariably do so. I prayed to Cary Grant to come and change my world back again. But it could never be...the same again..

The Bishop's Wife, also known as Cary and the Bishop's Wife, is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film from 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story 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, and was directed by Henry Koster.

It was remade in 1996 as The Preacher's Wife starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Courtney B. Vance.