#GeorgeCukor & #RosalindRussell listen as columnist #HeddaHopper shares dish during filming of #TheWomen. Rival Louella Parsons sniffed of HH's cameo, "Was a little amused to see HH playing a dirt-dishing newspaperwoman...but a job's a job in any language." 😽 #TCMParty #nextbook

In the final script for #TheBestYearsofOurLives, this was supposed to be the last shot, with #FredricMarch having the final say: "Hey buddies, whose wedding do you think this is, anyway." #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

The entrance to #GeorgeCukor’s former home. When he purchased the house at 9166 Cordell Dr. in 1934, #MGM prod. head #IrvingThalberg told him, “Go ahead, George, spend a lot of money. I love to have directors in debt, it forces them to work harder.” #TCMParty #nextbook

Feels like a good day to post this photo of #JFK and #TheBestYearsofOurLives' #HaroldRussell, who was head of AMVETS at the time. Russell championed veterans' rights across the aisle for 8 presidential administrations before his retirement in 1989. #TCMParty 🇺🇸 🗳️

Happy #Noirvember, #TCMParty! I've always loved the complicated mix of genres and moods in the kitchen-to-bedroom sequence between Homer ( #HaroldRussell ) and Wilma ( #CathyODonnell ) in #TheBestYearsofOurLives.

#Halloween 1947: Producer Samuel Goldwyn milks a twofer in ads for #TheSecretLifeofWalterMitty featuring #DannyKaye's head, #VirginiaMayo's legs, and a mention of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. (#BorisKarloff credit is a #Halloween treat!) #TCMParty

Sneak peek of the cover for my new book about the making of #TheWomen! Drops in Spring 2027! Thank you, @utexaspress.bsky.social 😍 #TCMParty #NormaShearer #JoanCrawford #OldHollywood

A still from #TheBestYearsofOurLives premiere in early 1947 at the United Nations Theater in San Francisco, a benefit for the Call-Bulletin Welfare Fund for Children. 📸@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social #TCMParty

"Stars in #Hollywood use Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1": #TeresaWright in one of the many "tie-ups" to promote #TheBestYearsofOurLives in the fall of 1946. #TCMParty

#OTD in 1947, Hollywood stars like #LaurenBacall, #HumphreyBogart, #MarshaHunt, and #DannyKaye-- known as the "Airborne 22"--land in Washington, D.C. on the eve of MPAA president Eric Johnston's testimony in front of #HUAC. #TCMParty

Enjoying my sneak of @olympiakiriakou.bsky.social's upcoming #VirginiaGrey bio 🤩 Shown here rehearsing with #GeorgeCukor & new friend #JoanCrawford for the perfume counter scene in #TheWomen. IRL the independent Grey definitely had opinions about her rather controlling new pal. 😉 #TCMParty

From #TheBestYearsofOurLives' shooting script when Homer ( #HaroldRussell) raises his arm to wave to Fred ( #DanaAndrews) & Al ( #FredricMarch) as their taxi pulls away. Direction for Mrs. Parrish ( #MinnaGombell): "...she is forced into a great sobbing release of tears." #TCMParty

In 1943, the same year #TeresaWright won a Best Supporting Oscar for MRS. MINIVER, she was also nominated in the Lead Actress category for #PrideoftheYankees (losing to MINIVER co-star #GreerGarson). PRIDE is on #TCM this morning! #TCMParty #LouGehrig #BabeRuth

On Oct. 19, 1947 at Chicago's Soldier Field, on the eve of the #HUAC hearings in D.C., #HaroldRussell made one of his most meaningful appearances after #TheBestYearsofOurLives to speak in honor of the first war dead to be sent home from the Pacific. #TCMParty #Veterans 📸 Getty

On the set of the Stephensons' apartment for #TheBestYearsofOurLives, on #TCM tonight! Star of the Month #MyrnaLoy and #FredricMarch each made $100K, but Loy received top billing per her contract, negotiated by their shared agent Leland Hayward. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

On the 1946 set of #TheBestYearsOfOurLives: #DanaAndrews refuses to serve milkshakes to DP #GreggToland and #WilliamWyler. #TCMParty #drugstorecowboy

F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first writer to tackle #MGM's film adaptation of #TheWomen. Outlining Clare Boothe's play, he described Crystal Allen ( #JoanCrawford) as "a low-grade bitch" whose "vulgar pugnaciousness is stronger than Mary's well-bred misery." #TCMParty #nextbook

An ad for Parker Quink pens featuring #DanaAndrews in advance of the November 1946 release of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty

In mid-October 1946, the first preview of #TheBestYearsofOurLives screened at United Artists Theatre in Long Beach, CA. Of the 314 cards returned, 200+ ranked the movie as "excellent," "very good," "wonderful" and"best ever" despite the long running time. #TCMParty 📷 Mahan Collection

Oct. '47: #HaroldRussell writes "These Are My Hands" for U.S. papers. "If you saw the picture #TheBestYearsofOurLives, you probably felt sorry for the sailor who lost both of his hands. That fellow is me. But I don't feel sorry for myself." #TCMParty #Veterans #DisabilityRights

On the eve of #WorldMentalHealthDay2026, a still from Fred's nightmare in #TheBestYearsOfOurLives. The dramatic sequence required numerous takes partly because of the multiple set-ups ( #DanaAndrews and #TeresaWright in two-shots and separate close-ups, etc.). #TCMParty #PTSD

The list of cast “suggestions” for Clare Boothe’s 1936 play #TheWomen from her archive at the Library of Congress. Film actresses being considered included #LillianGish & Patricia Collinge as Mary, Jesse Royce Landis as Sylvia, and Shirley Booth as Crystal. #TCMParty #nextbook

#HaroldRussell and wife Rita in the Cub Room of the Stork Club in NYC ca. 1946. #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #Disability

#TCM Star of the Month #MyrnaLoy describing her performance method shortly after she made #TheBestYearsofOurLives: "I like to play drama under comedy." #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

A glimpse of #DanaAndrews to start the week! Shown here taking a break on the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives with #WilliamWyler and art director Perry Ferguson. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

#NormaShearer had casting approval for the part of late husband #IrvingThalberg in MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES, on #TCM tonight. She discovered women's wear exec #RobertEvans vacationing at the Beverly Hills Hotel, brought him to Universal, and launched his career. #TCMParty

The advert that inspired the title for my Spring 2027 book about the making of #TheWomen from play to film through the eyes of #GeorgeCukor, #NormaShearer, and #JoanCrawford. "Out of the boudoir...on to the screen....See them with their hair down and their claws out!" #TCMParty

In the setup to the dramatic soda fountain scene in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, Fred ( #DanaAndrews) makes sundaes for a teen couple. The boy's bubblegum habit was an issue in later shots, with the script clerk writing one take was ruined because he was "chewing gum madly." #TCMParty

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE--the film that earned #FredricMarch an #Oscar & inspired the gripping transformation scene he performed without F/X while entertaining troops during #WWII. (And that sealskin top hat now lives in his niece's closet 🎩) On #TCM today! #TCMParty

A throng of girls swarms #DanaAndrews as he gets some training behind the soda fountain at the Owl Drug store (Hollywood and Vine) in preparation for his role as "drugstore cowboy" Fred Derry in #TheBestYearsofOurLives. 📸 Bettmann #TCMParty