The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.
Actor: Cary Grant
Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach and worked as a stilt walker and acrobat before Hollywood, and famously said that everybody wants to be Cary Grant, including him. The persona was a construction he maintained across four decades.
He worked with Hitchcock four times, in Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest, and the last of those uses his effortlessness as the joke: a man who is never flustered spending two hours being flustered. He never won a competitive Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1970.
