On #Easter Sunday 1947, #TheBestYearsofOurLives was being celebrated in London as the "Picture of the Month": "Although ever-long....(it) won b/c of its first-class direction...tremendous star appeal and...its human approach to the American postwar problems." #TCMParty #Veterans
I always forget it's Cathy O'Donnell playing Tirzah. I grew up watching #BenHur every Easter, but didn't even know about #TheBestYearsofOurLives until I saw it on #TCM when I was well into adulthood.
#TCMParty
A fake poster for an 80 year anniversary popcorn bucket for the William Wyler directed movie The Best Years of Our Lives. Crumbling WW2 Fighter Plane Popcorn Bucket!!! When the popcorn is finished the once useful bucket will break down even further now that it serves no purpose. BUT! Crafty users can take the pieces and rebuild into over 20 different post war job scenes!
And lastly for today, an 80 year anniversary popcorn bucket for the William Wyler directed movie The Best Years of Our Lives.
#popcornbucket #webcomics #comics #thebestyearsofourlives #filmsky
Censor Joe Breen sent an 8-page memo in April ‘46 to #SamuelGoldwyn re: #TheBestYearsOfOurLives, warning to take “the greatest possible care in the shooting of all scenes of kissing. These should not be prolonged, or lustful...NO OPEN-MOUTHED KISSING.” #TCMParty #censorship
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m going to break that marriage up.”
Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives
#TheBestYearsOfOurLives #WilliamWyler #TeresaWright #RobertESherwood
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
"Maybe the enemy is the fucking war..."
The troubled son of #TheBestYearsOfOurLives (1946) is one of those quietly brilliant films that lingers in your mind as a mood rather than for specific elements. Powerful, sensitive, well worth your time. Plus, an absolute belting soundtrack.
#WFWWW #FilmSky
#MyrnaLoy in 1946 at the November 21 premiere of #TheBestYearsofOurLives in New York City at the Astor Theatre. #TCMParty
#TeresaWright, #MyrnaLoy, and #DanaAndrews relaxing between takes of the "night on the town" scene in #TheBestYearsofOurLives ca. May 1946. #TCMParty
Just as #TheBestYearsofOurLives was named the top picture of 1947 by Film Daily, #OliviadeHavilland reached out to #WilliamWyler about adapting the play “The Heiress,” which would eventually become Wyler’s next film project. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
In 1947 writer-director #RobertRossen, whose film BODY AND SOUL was about to be released, named #TheBestYearsofOurLives as the only American film he found realistic, but added that even it "had some phony moments." Rossen on-set with DP #JamesWongHowe and #HazelBrooks. #TCMParty
Poster for BOOMERANG, #DanaAndrews’ follow-up to #TheBestYearsofOurLives. Goldwyn warned him not to discuss the film while promoting BEST YEARS. Shot in CT, where the real murder happened. Produced by “March of Time’s” Louis de Rochemont in “newsreel style.” #TCMParty
In March ’46 #TheBestYearsofOurLives' art director #PerryFerguson submitted a set construction estimate that also included locations like the Long Beach Airport (opening scene), the Parrish house (1125 W. 20th St in L.A., below), and Marie's apartment (12th and Hoover). #TCMParty
In mid March '47, a story by #HaroldRussell's wife Rita runs in U.S. newspapers. She writes of seeing his mother passing her house with a suitcase in '44. "I rushed out...she told me of the explosion that had blown off both his hands." #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #WWII
Despite--or perhaps because of--her thick Alabama accent, #SamuelGoldwyn christened Ann Steely #CathyODonnell after assessing her Irish-leaning good looks. Once she had done extensive training and stage work, he cast her in #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty #StPatricksDay ☘️
Despite #TheBestYearsofOurLives' record-setting wins at the 1947 #Oscars, the ongoing feud between sisters #OliviadeHavilland and #JoanFontaine dominated press coverage in the days following the awards ceremony. #TCMParty
#TheBestYearsofOurLives swept the #Oscars #OTD 79 yrs ago. One of the most emotional wins: #HaroldRussell for Best Supporting Actor (he also rc'd an honorary award). Here w/ #CathyODonnell (accepting for #FredricMarch) & fellow winners #OliviadeHavilland & #AnneBaxter. #TCMParty
#Oscars flashback: Press props for Oscar nominee #FredricMarch in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, his 15th film. Check out the last sentence for an estimated gross of his entire filmography in 1947 dollars (about $3.6 billion today). #TCMParty
#DanaAndrews, the original #drugstorecowboy, on the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives in 1946 refusing service to DP #GreggToland and director #WilliamWyler. #TCMParty
After #TheBestYearsofOurLives premiered in London and began its record-setting run in March 1947, English critic C. A. Lejeune lauded the film in London's Observer, writing, "...it deserves the clear judgment we should be prepared to give to any other foreign picture." #TCMParty
I never tire of Alfred Eisenstaedt's radiant portrait of #TeresaWright, who #DOD in 2005. Eisenstaedt shot the portrait for LIFE to promote #TheBestYearsofOurLives soon after the film's premiere in NYC. #TCMParty
“Diary of a Sergeant” 1945
with Harold Russell via the
National Archives on YouTube
After seeing this short film, William Wyler cast Russell in #TheBestYearsofOurLives
#TCMParty
OMG, they almost left Rob Stephenson out of the credits too!!
#TheBestYearsOfOurLives #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar
Take a sip of this and you'll realize there isn't a headache in a barrel of it #TheBestYearsOfOurLives #TCMParty
I visited the computer equivalent of that aircraft graveyard at WPAFB. Row after row of Digital PDP-8's in pastel 70's colors, in a field. Birds had built nests. #TCMParty #TheBestYearsOfOurLives
I wonder if any of those prefabricated houses made out of salvaged B-17s are still standing. #TheBestYearsOfOurLives #TCMParty
When Dana Andrews rips that picture up. 😭😭😭 #TheBestYearsOfOurLives #TCMParty
So very wonderfully said..and I totally agree.
#TheBestYearsofOurLives #TCMParty
I can never get through that Wilma/Homer bedroom scene without 😭😭😭.
#TheBestYearsOfOurLives #TCMParty #RealLove
