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The Best Years of Our Lives

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!
Filled with all the love and warmth and joy. . .the human heart can hold!


The Best Years of Our Lives (aka Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen readjusting to civilian life after coming home from World War II. Samuel Goldwyn was inspired to produce a film about veterans after reading an August 7, 1944, article in Time about the difficulties experienced by men returning to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former war correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to write a screenplay. His work was first published as a novella, Glory for Me, which Kantor wrote in blank verse.[4][5] Robert Sherwood then adapted the novella as a screenplay.[5]
The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards in 1946, including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Supporting Actor (Harold Russell), Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Sherwood), and Best Original Score (Hugo Friedhofer).[6] In addition to its critical success, the film quickly became a great commercial success upon release. It became the highest-grossing film and most attended film in both the United States and UK since the release of Gone with the Wind, selling approximately 55 million tickets in the United States [7] which equaled a gross of $23,650,000.[8] It remains the sixth most-attended film of all time in the UK, with over 20 million tickets sold.[9] The film had one of the highest viewing figures of all time, with ticket sales exceeding $20.4 million


Release Date: December 25, 1946

Samuel Goldwyn/RKO

Domestic Total Gross: $23,650,000

2016: $473,550,000

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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