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Malvina 2022-10-14 21:29:26
[Film Review] The Bishop's Wife (1947) 7.3/10
Silver-screen glamor oozes from this vestigially cloying but devilishly feel-good Hollywood fable about an angel, descending from heaven in the physical form of Cary Grant, is assigned by the Almighty to answer the prayer of an Episcopal bishop Henry Brougham (Niven), who is preoccupied with his...
Regis Toomey
The Bishop's Wife quotes
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Prof. Wutheridge: Same trouble with my book. Can't find the words.
Dudley: [holding up an old Roman coin] Even when you had this coin to inspire you?
Julia Brougham: Why, that's the one that you gave to Henry, professor.
Dudley: Yes, I, uh, I stole it off the table.
Prof. Wutheridge: You wasted your time, Dudley. It's worthless.
Dudley: Oh, on the contrary. This is one of the rarest of all antiquities. Only 100 of these coins were minted by Julius Caesar 2000 years ago. That was when Cleopatra visited Rome. Presumably, these coins were used to pay her hotel bill.
Prof. Wutheridge: I never knew that.
Dudley: Well, nobody knew about it, except, uh, Caesar's wife.
Julia Brougham: She was suspicious?
Dudley: Definitely. She did *not* share her husband's admiration for Cleopatra. So she had these coins destroyed, melted into ornaments for herself. This is the one she missed. It's an unwritten chapter in history, and you, professor, will write it.
Prof. Wutheridge: [showing some growing curiosity] Do you know any more stories like that?
Dudley: Oh, any number of them.
Prof. Wutheridge: You're a curious fellow, Dudley.
Julia Brougham: Have you just begun to notice that?
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Prof. Wutheridge: Dudley...
Dudley: Yes, my friend?
Prof. Wutheridge: There's one thing that troubles me. One thing I wish I knew.
Dudley: What's that?
Prof. Wutheridge: Well, I'm an old man. That history is a tremendous task. I wonder... will I have time to finish it?
Dudley: You'll finish your history, Professor. You'll have time.
Prof. Wutheridge: I believe you, Dudley.
Prof. Wutheridge: [Dudley hands him the old Roman coin] You know, for quite a while now, every time I pass the cemetery, I've felt as if I were apartment hunting.
Julia Brougham: [Julia and Dudley are heading for the door] Goodbye, Professor.
Prof. Wutheridge: You've given an old man a very happy afternoon... God bless you both.
Dudley: Thank you. I'll pass that recommendation along.
