How could anyone not fall in love with Teresa Wright?!
I tell you Al Stephenson (Frederick March) was one lucky guy. Married to Myrna Loy with Teresa Wright as a daughter.
When I grew older, I actually fell desperately in love with a girl who was every bit as gorgeous as Virginia--no, even more gorgeous--and every bit as...unreliable...as the character she played in Best Years. I was so ga-ga over this girl that I would have done anything! Unfortunately, she got pregnant--not me--and married another boy--but for years, every time I'd see her I'd go crazy all over again. I knew she couldn't be trusted, but I didn't care!
Once at a party, as I was dancing with an eldery lady, I told her that I had been in love with this girl.
"Aren't you glad you didn't marry her!" she snapped. (The girl's reputation was not exactly...unreproachable.)
I didn't know what to say, but I was thinking..."Hmmmmmmmmm. Maybe. Maybe not."
My mother--a stern puritan--who understood how crazy I was about this girl, once remarked, with a kind and understanding laugh, that she was afraid this girl might have a little trouble getting past the Pearly Gates. I was thinking she'd be like Phryne. All she had to do was drop her cloak, and St. Peter would understand--just as the Athenian judges did.
Fortunately I married someone truthful, trustworthy, and wonderful...and above reproach.
The girl's no longer married. She's now on the loose...
But he should have sent the son off to military school....