Hoagy Carmichael at his best.
Actually, there wasn’t a bad performance in the whole cast, even the small parts like Andrews’ parents.
Andrews and Wright is like being able to visit my parents right after the war, eight years before they became my parents. March and Loy is like visiting the couple I wish could have been my grandparents.
This is my favorite movie of all time.
Excellent. Just excellent.
As a veteran, I believe The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is the best film Hollywood ever made. It received nine Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, screenplay, and editing.
Dana Andrews is one of my favorite male movie stars. He's well cast in this one.
I'll never forget gorgeous Virginia Mayo. It thrills me just to think about her, and I was told--actually here on FR--by someone who knew her, that she was as sweet, lovely, and beautiful in real life as in her screen appearance (despite the nasty character she plays in this flick). She had a slight deviation of one of her eyes. It's interesting how an imperfection can enhance someone's beauty.
It’s an amazing film. I watch it at least once a year.
Myrna Loy was smoking hot.
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Great film. Tough issues handled with sensitivity.
Say what you want about actors (and I don’t have much respect for most of them) but many in these war movies, especially those made during the war, served our country in that capacity.
Can some movie buff help with this one? WWII Navy movie. There is a guy whose job was to take the spent, hot shells from the gun and drop them onto a conveyor. He used asbestos gloves. He accidentally dropped his gloves on the conveyor, but continued his job, barehanded, causing both hands to be destroyed. Thanks.
“The Best Years of Our Lives” is one of my favorite movies.
I remember reading that Harold Russell flubbed his lines when he said the wedding vows - the director said to leave it in b/c it was such a human touch.
We always try to watch a holiday movie on holidays as a family - this will be our choice tonight.
Great movie.
My wife and I loved watching old black and white movies. I would jokingly call this one “Three Came Home” which is actually a different movie.
Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo were in “The Princess and the Pirate”. In one scene, she plays a beer maid in a saloon and comes to his table to take his order. Hope says “Sit down, take a load off my eyes.”
Here it is—free for all (but with commercials):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfM_1RirWY
I love that movie, and have seen it several times!
Thanks.
Thank you for reminding us of TCMs Memorial Day weekend film series. I often wonder what young people think of times like this. I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and saw many of the movies about WWII, but they didn’t impact me much. My dad was in the Navy in the South Pacific during the war, but I never heard him say one word about it. Now that I’m an old lady, these things are much more important to me. I remember staying up half the night watching Vietnam war POWs deplaning, and being so touched by it, in the early 70s, and how thankful I was for those who got out. I miss my dad, and my husband, who did know about his dad’s service in the European theatre, sure misses him. The older I get the more excited I get to know that we will see them again, when we join them in Heaven. I don’t think young people can relate to that much.
I haven’t seen this movie in many years, but it definitely started with me. It was so good.