Niven's performance was also outstanding; one could see through his acting that he was nowhere near interested on keeping his congregation as much as he was interested in building a monument to himself. The role of the angel was not entirely charitable, it served to show the wife that she shouldn't fall in love with anyone else, including an irreverent angel if she was going to stand behind her husband and see him succeed. This is where the role of Loretta Young is touching even though falling in love with an angel was probably too fantastic for her to fathom. In a sense this parody of being an angel on a mission to save a slice of humanity is somewhat sad, Grant has to complete what he was sent to do. And he skilfully gets Niven to realize that the essence of increasing his popularity is in contributing to the poor, not in building a cathedral.

The other role that Grant shone in was “Charade”, where Grant plays a detective agent but his true identity is not revealed until the end when a glib Audrey Hepburn asks him what other identities has he been keeping from her. This is where the title Charade is very appropriate. One assumes that Grant is on the right side of law and order when he offers his services to help Hepburn, but when she discovers through a detective service that he is out to find out where her husband's riches are stashed, he could for all intents and purposes be considered to be on the wrong side of the law. Walter Matthau played a less convincing role as he instantly tries to induce Hepburn to give up clues on where the husband left his wealth. Even by a yesterday standard that was pretty unprofessional.