Still trying to find this choir boy!

Every five years or so I post about this choirboy. In the movie The Bishop’s Wife, the Mitchell Boychoir perform a hymn called O Sing to God. I love the arrangement. But every time I see this movie, and I watch it every holiday season, there’s one boy who always gets my attention. The movie was made in 1947, and I’m guessing he was around 15 years old, maybe a little older. That would make him 93+ now. So yeah, probably no longer with us.

Here’s a few screenshots of him, but you can also see him here. I cued it so when you click on the link it starts at the moment he appears.

As I’ve posted before, I don’t know why, but I just want to know how his life went. What did he do? Where did he go? Did he keep singing? Was his life mostly happy? (Are most people’s lives mostly happy?)

Mitchell Boychoir

Mitchell Boychoir

Mitchell Boychoir

Mitchell Boychoir

Stacy Horn

I've written six non-fiction books, the most recent is Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York.

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