Alison Macor

#DanaAndrews, the original #drugstorecowboy, on the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives in 1946 refusing service to DP #GreggToland and director #WilliamWyler. #TCMParty

Oscar winner #TeresaWright: “I wish Major Wyler were here tonight so I could thank him first for his splendid direction," she said upon winning Best Supporting Actress for MINIVER. (Also nominated in the Best Actress category, she lost to co-star #GreerGarson.) #TCMParty #Oscarweek

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

Love this, and thanks! Hopefully next year 🤞

Director #GeorgeCukor and #NormaShearer clown around on the 1939 set of #TheWomen. In a 1936 note to Cukor after the death of husband Irving Thalberg, Shearer wrote, "I am so grateful for all you contributed to dear Irving's life." #TCMParty #nextbook

Thanks so much for reading it! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it. I will be at a lacrosse game during the broadcast but will probably catch the last 30 minutes or so. Never gets old for me!

#TheBestYearsofOurLives on #TCM tonight for "Oscar Goes Home"! In MAKING BEST YEARS, I argue that if #WilliamWyler hadn't made #MrsMiniver, which he ultimately wished were more realistic, he wouldn't have made #TheBestYearsofOurLives the way he did. #TCMParty

Interesting! THE PRODUCERS takes a different tone toward its subject matter so maybe not? He was making FUNNY GIRL when it came out, but I've never read a public comment from him about it.

Released 61 years ago this week, #TheSoundofMusic was originally offered to #WilliamWyler. Wyler eventually left the project, said daughter Melanie, because "given his background and Jewish heritage, he couldn’t, in his words, ‘make a movie about singing Nazis.’” #TCMParty

#TheBestYearsofOurLives fan Hedda Hopper's Mar. 1 column in '47: " #HaroldRussell ...was refused admission to a swank New York dining room b/c he wasn't wearing a tie. The headwaiter should be fired instantly. Manipulating a tie is one thing Harold can't do with hooks." #TCMParty

Silent star #WilliamHaines is showcased in the March issue of @architecturaldigest.com.web.brid.gy. Forced out of #MGM because of his openly gay lifestyle, Haines reinvented himself as an in-demand interior designer thanks in part to close pals/clients like #JoanCrawford. #TCMParty

In other news, the head of a company that made grenadine also wrote in to complain because of March's dig at "pink...sweet" drinks. 🤪

March 1947 letter from L. Otto of Fresno, CA to #SamuelGoldwyn re: #TheBestYearsofOurLives: "...the film has been so widely advertised. Was it advertised to give the liquor business a boost? Why was there so much drinking in the picture?" #TCMParty #FredricMarch

The Midwest premiere of #TheBestYearsofOurLives took place at Chicago's historic Woods Theatre in February 1947. That same month, the theater used timely marketing to promote the film. #TCMParty #PresidentsDay

#BehindTheScenes on the set of #MarieAntoinette, on #TCM later this morning! Director W. S. Van Dyke, #NormaShearer and co-star #TyronePower most likely discussing the budget for Norma's wigs. #TCMParty

A story making the rounds when #TheBestYearsofOurLives opened wide in late January 1947 mentioned #TeresaWright's 4-room dressing "apartment" at the Goldwyn Studios, which #JohnWayne had recently used. "Thanks for the use of the hall," he wrote in a note to her. #TCMParty

Honoring #MyrnaLoy on this World Day of Social Justice. She worked extensively with the #UnitedNations and joined UNESCO in 1948 not long after the release of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty #OldHollywood #Justice

Virginia Grey, #GeorgeCukor, and #JoanCrawford rehearse the Black's perfume counter scene in #TheWomen. “I don’t try to relax them,” Cukor said of actors. “Why should I? I don’t want the actors to be too goddamn relaxed.”#TCMParty #nextbook 📸 Margaret Herrick Library AMPAS

Not long after he made #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #HaroldRussell let the Motion Picture Relief Fund use his likeness to raise money for film industry members in need. Later he would go on to head up national orgs like AMVETS to advocate for #disabled #veterans. #TCMParty

#TeresaWright described #WilliamWyler as "a daredevil," telling biographer Jan Herman that she once saw him in Malibu, riding around on a child's two-wheeler. Shown here on the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty

I interviewed #FrederickWiseman when I was a film critic in the early 2000s. He brought 2 of his older docs, LAW AND ORDER and HIGH SCHOOL, to Austin & was just as interested in what audiences thought then as when they 1st premiered. What an inspiration. #TCMParty #documentaries

Join me and @TheCMMan TONIGHT at 6:30 pm CT for a virtual discussion of #TheWomen! I'll share tidbits from my forthcoming book about the making of the movie, from its start as a scandalous play to all of its iterations! Hair Down, Claws Out! #TCMParty #OldHollywood

Totally agree and so glad they ditched that take.

A #ValentinesDay twofer in #TheBestYearsofOurLives' final sequence: a wedding and—for my money—one of the most realistically romantic on-screen proposals. #TCMParty #TeresaWright #DanaAndrews

One product tie-in created for #TheBestYearsofOurLives was a layout featuring #TeresaWright and #DanaAndrews in a newspaper advertisement for an L.A.-based jewelry store's line of engagement rings. It ran in February 1947 in the lead-up to #ValentinesDay. #TCMParty

I'll be joining @TheCMMan
on 2/16 for a free virtual discussion of #TheWomen & sharing tidbits from my forthcoming book about the making of the film. Join us for a conversation about female power and gay #Hollywood at the height of the studio system! #TCMParty #OldHollywood x.com/TheCMMan/sta...

Cathy O'Donnell not only broke out in #TheBestYearsofOurLives but also met on-set her future husband Robert Wyler, Willy's older brother. Shown here in costume and with both Wylers and #CharltonHeston during filming of BEN-HUR. #TCMParty #Oldhollywood #ValentineWeek

Late April '46. #SamuelGoldwyn sends a telegram to sc. #RobertSherwood in New York: “You would have been thrilled if you could have seen the rushes this morning of Al’s homecoming. I haven’t been as moved by a scene in many years.”#TheBestYearsofOurLives #TCMParty #ValentinesWeek

From #WilliamWyler's 11/3/42 letter to wife Talli in #WWII: "I think about all the wonderful things we’ll do when this mess is over. And what a fine life together we’ll have...how much richer we will be than those that have stayed home and made money." #TCMParty #ValentineWeek