Cary Grant can sweep any girl of her feet. What I liked especially in this film was that Cary Grant’s character was not meant to be with Julia because he was an angel and Julia was already married to the Bishop. Cary Grant gracefully walked away from his love for Julia because he has integrity and he does not want to get messed up in someone else’s marriage.
This film had so many great lines. One of the best was from the cab driver that went skating with Julia and Cary Grant “So many people don’t know where they’re going, but they’re in a rush to get there”; people need to have this mentality; life goes by too quickly to get wrapped up in tunnel vision.
Cary Grant’s character was promoting living life with arm’s wide open. So many people have trouble accepting new ideas, or letting themselves open up to others (that does not include getting drunk and blah, blah, blahing your life story).
This film was also redone not too, too long ago with Denzel Washington playing the Cary Grant role in “The Preacher’s Wife” I believe. Denzel is definitely up for the challenge, that man also has class!
What I liked about this film also is that Cary Grant is still young in 1947; by 60s he was looking more like a father figure, and even though he remained charming and genuine until the end, it seemed that he lost some of his enthusiasm when he did Charade with Audrey Hepburn.
The actress who played Julia was good too. She wasn’t a stick in the mud like Lauren Bacall, and she wasn’t irritating like Ginger Rogers, she played it just right with excitement. The actor playing the Bishop played a good bitter misguided husband, who learns what’s important by the end.
Side note, this is a “Christmas film”, it’s a great one to watch wrapped up in a warm blanket with some hot cocoa!
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