Festive Film Screening
Ultimate Christmas movie The Bishop's Wife starring Cary Grant showing Friday 18 November at St Mary Redcliffe Church
Opening Night: The Bishop’s Wife (dir. Henry Koster, 1947)
St Mary Redcliffe Church, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6RA
Friday 18 November 2022, doors. 6pm, film 7pm
Running time: 1hr 49mins; Rating: U
The ultimate Christmassy film with the famous ice-skating scene, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, screened in the glorious nave of St Mary Redcliffe Church, which Queen Elizabeth I dubbed “The fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England” during her 1574 visit to Bristol. Including a cocktail bar from Espensen Spirit, a festival welcome from Cary Grant Comes Home festival director Charlotte Crofts and an introduction from the last surviving member of the cast Karolyn Grimes, who appeared in this film and the similarly feel-good It’s a Wonderful Life, aged six.
