Alison Macor

The book that @TomDohertyfilm in CINEASTE praised as “intelligent, sensitive, and respectful…discerning and affectionate" about the making of #TheBestYearsofOurLives—now in paperback! Available where books are sold. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes #Veterans #WWII

“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

#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

Happy #BastilleDay! Here's the poster for the 1947 French release of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty

In 2002 #PBS broadcast a revival of Clare Boothe Luce's #TheWomen performed @ the Roundabout Theatre. The starry cast included #KristenJohnston as Sylvia Fowler. #IsaacMizrahi did the costumes, and his designs for Sylvia--this hat!-- were sublimely ridiculous. #TCMParty #nextbook

By July 1947, #TheBestYearsofOurLives had been in theaters for at least half a year at higher-than-average prices. Critics called it the "Goldwyn gouge." Rumblings about the film's politics were growing louder stateside even as it set b.o. records overseas. #TCMParty #BoxOffice

I never found proof in #TheBestYearsofOurLives' production reports that #WilliamWyler "halted" filming for a day to let the cast get used to the Stephensons' apartment, but it‘s an intriguing story. #TCMParty #BehindtheScenes

Fred's (#DanaAndrews) flirty sales pitch in reverse to Peggy (#TeresaWright) in #TheBestYearsofOurLives: "Youth Recaptured...but you don't need any of that phony stuff.... If you don't put that ON, then you don't need THIS to take that off." #TCMParty

#OTD in 1939, #GeorgeCukor celebrated his birthday on the set of #TheWomen with #JoanCrawford, #NormaShearer and other cast & crew. Trying to slim down before the premiere, Cukor enjoyed watermelon provided by #RosalindRussell. Shearer gave him the giant donut (center). #TCMParty

Happy 😇 Birthday to #CathyODonnell, who not only broke out in #TheBestYearsofOurLives but also met her future husband Robert Wyler on-set. Shown here with Robert, his older brother #WilliamWyler, and #CharltonHeston on the set of Ben Hur. #TCMParty #OldHollywood

#OTD in 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle were in the middle of a war bond tour of the U.S. #WilliamWyler flew missions with the crew overseas to make THE MEMPHIS BELLE: A STORY OF A FLYING FORTRESS (1944) for the War Dept. #TCMParty #veterans #July4th

The actress/dancer #LouiseFranklin, who often appeared uncredited as she did in #TheBestYearsOfOurLives, as the attendant in the Ladies' lounge with #TeresaWright and #VirginiaMayo. 📷Walter L. Gordon, Jr. Collection@UCLA #TCMParty

Samuel Goldwyn held a company-wide contest to name the film that became #TheBestYearsofOurLives. A few of the suggestions? “Back Home for Keeps,” “No More Bugles” and--my favorite--“Atomic Energy Seeped Into Her Heart.”😉 #BehindTheScenes #TCMParty

Later this a.m. on #TCM! #ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice opened during prod. of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. Joe Breen hinted that critics were already objecting to POSTMAN's explicitness (not true), so Sam Goldwyn should heed his warnings about censoring the BEST YEARS script. #TCMParty