Julia (Loretta Young) is frustrated with her bishop husband Henry Brougham (David Niven)'s obsessive fund raising drive to build his new cathedral. She encounters good Samaritan Dudley (Cary Grant). Henry is in disbelief when Dudley claims to be an angel answering his prayer. Everyone is enchanted by Dudley except Henry who struggles to find the funds for his cathedral to the detriment of everything else including his family.
I have never heard of this movie which is odd since I can see this being a perennial Christmas movie. It has many similarities to It's a Wonderful Life. What I don't understand is why Cary Grant wants to be the angel in this. He is much more the romantic lead than David Niven and he could make Henry really sing. The casting is not wrong but I would love to see Niven and Grant switch roles.
I have never heard of this movie which is odd since I can see this being a perennial Christmas movie. It has many similarities to It's a Wonderful Life. What I don't understand is why Cary Grant wants to be the angel in this. He is much more the romantic lead than David Niven and he could make Henry really sing. The casting is not wrong but I would love to see Niven and Grant switch roles.