Alison Macor

#NormaShearer and #GeorgeRaft in 1940. They began their controversial relationship just as Shearer finished shooting #TheWomen in Aug. 1939. Raft followed her to Europe that month, but the trip was short-lived once Britain and France declared war on Germany. #TCMParty #nextbook

I'd pay to see that.

Sounds like we're around the same age 😉 I remember the Million Dollar Movie on Saturdays.

Wow, that's a young age to be watching--you must have been emotionally mature 😉 And totally get the James Mason crush!

Happy Thursday, #TCMParty! Enjoy #TeresaWright promoting #TheBestYearsofOurLIves ca. 1946/1947.

Spot on! Thanks for sharing!

#JudyGarland and #JamesMason on the set of #AStarisBorn (1954). The script's final line ("This is Mrs. Norman Maine..."), first written for the '37 version, was said to be inspired by #NormaShearer's acknowledgment card sent after Irving Thalberg's death in '36. #TCMParty

"We've been having lectures in atomic energy at school, and Mr. McGlaggen--he's our Physics teacher--he says that we've reached the point where the whole human race has either got to find a way to live together, or else...." #TCMParty #Hiroshima80 #TheBestYearsofOurLives

I agree! I think "The Way Home" wasn't direct or affirming enough for Goldwyn.

#OTD in 1944 #SamuelGoldwyn telegrams story ed. Kay Brown to "register immediately" the titles "Home Again" and "The Way Home," the title of the original TIME article read by his wife Frances that inspired the novel and #TheBestYearsOfOurLives script. #TCMParty #ScriptToScreen

Possibly, but I also got the sense that Goldwyn was working every angle. I even found a President's Day advert. in the archives.

The closest #TheBestYearsofOurLives comes to slapstick is the scene where #MyrnaLoy changes the drunken #FredricMarch into pajamas on his first night home. #TCMParty #Veterans

Love this!

Happy 😇 Birthday to #MyrnaLoy, seen here in the uniform she wore while assisting the #RedCross during #WWII. Those experiences informed her performance as Milly in #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty #OldHollywood

The almighty #RueMcClanahan as Countess de Lage in the 2001 revival of #TheWomen at Roundabout Theatre, later broadcast on #pbs. With Kristen Johnson (Sylvia), Jennifer Tilly (Crystal), and Cynthia Nixon (Mary). #TCMParty #Broadway #nextbook

Here's what happened to the budget of #TheBestYearsofOurLives when #WilliamWyler stayed home with a cold and filming shut down for a day in July 1946 (also noted in the production reports). #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

THE BAD SEED on #TCM today! Upon its release in 1956, many theater managers posted the following warning in their advertising: "The management recommends this picture for adult entertainment only." Also, no one would be admitted during the last 15 minutes 😱 #TCMParty

Decades after #TheBestYearsofOurLives premiered in November 1946, director #WilliamWyler and co-star #HaroldRussell kept in touch, often having dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills whenever Russell's veterans' advocacy work brought him back to L.A. #TCMParty #Veterans

RKO sound man Harold Tannenbaum (L) with #WilliamWyler during #WWII. He was KIA shooting footage for #TheMemphisBelle. “I suppose you heard we lost Tannenbaum,” a devastated Wyler wrote home. “I came back and he didn’t. I guess that’s about all there is to it.” #TCMParty 📸 Wyler

Right?! Adrian probably looks the best 😉

“Sketched on the set” of #TheWomen at #MGM in 1939. Adrian’s presence (far left) underscores the importance of the fashions to the film and of him to MGM. #TCMParty #OldHollywood #nextbook

"Anybody who's anybody in Hollywood has shown her legs," said #VirginiaMayo while filming both #TheBestYearsofOurLives and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in the summer of 1946. Her dramatic turn as Marie in BEST YEARS would help shift the focus beyond her looks. 😉 #TCMParty

That's funny! I also am a Mitchum fan 😉 And yes, the two movies deal with war trauma in interesting ways. I don't love END like I love BY, but I really like that it deals with the woman's perspective via Maguire's Pat.

#OTD in 1946 TILL THE END OF TIME was released. Based on a novel written by #TeresaWright's husband Niven Busch, the movie is notable for #RobertMitchum, #DorothyMcGuire's war widow, and its tackling of #PTSD months before #TheBestYearsOfOurLives. #TCMParty #veterans

“I wish Maj. #WilliamWyler were here tonight so I could thank him first for his splendid direction," #TeresaWright said upon winning Best Supporting Actress for MRS. MINIVER, on #TCM today. (Also nominated in the Best Actress category, she lost to co-star #GreerGarson.) #TCMParty

One of my favorite #WWII photos of #WilliamWyler, taken in England while he was shooting footage of Queen Elizabeth's visit to RAF Bassingbourn to congratulate the crew, for the wartime documentary #TheMemphisBelle. 📸Wyler Family #TCMParty #Veterans

Archival find: A promo poster for #MGM's GRAND HOTEL within a 16-page spread about the studio as top earner, in a 1932 issue of #FortuneMagazine. #TCMParty #OldHollywood #research

#WilliamWyler on #TheBestYearsofOurLives: "The close-up is a tricky business and must be done in silent agreement with the audience, b/c if they don't want to look at a specific face or object at the precise moment you want them to...then it's no good." #TCMParty #TeresaWright

#DanaAndrews poses for PHOTOPLAY in July 1946 while filming #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty

Mid July 1945: Prod. #SamuelGoldwyn sends #JohnFord the novel GLORY FOR ME, which Goldwyn had commissioned MacKinlay Kantor to write. SG asks Ford to let him know what he thinks, suggesting he was considering Ford to direct what would become #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty