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The Best Years of Our Lives
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam Wyler
Screenplay byRobert E. Sherwood
Based onGlory for Me
1945 novella
by MacKinlay Kantor
Produced bySamuel Goldwyn
StarringMyrna LoyFredric MarchDana AndrewsTeresa WrightVirginia Mayo
CinematographyGregg Toland
Edited byDaniel Mandell
Music byHugo Friedhofer (composer)Emil Newman (musical director)
Production
company		Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release datesNovember 21, 1946 (New York City, premiere)
Running time172 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.1 million[1] or $3 million[2]
Box office$23.7 million[3]
Standing (left to right): Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright; seated at piano: Hoagy Carmichael

The Best Years of Our Lives (also known as 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 depicts three United States servicemen returning from World War II and re-adjusting to societal changes and civilian life. The men come from different military branches, with different ranks that do not correspond with their civilian social class backgrounds.

The film is credited for its portrayal of post-World War II era hardships and of reincorporation of veterans into society after their often traumatic terms in the US military. It is one of the earliest films to address such issues, dealing with concerns such as PTSD and a resurgence of isolationist policy. There are prescient references to nuclear destruction, and to reintegration policies with veterans that extended into the Vietnam War era and beyond.

The Best Years of Our Lives was a critical and commercial success, winning seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell), Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood), and Best Original Score (Hugo Friedhofer).[4] In addition, for his role as Parrish, Russell won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He had received an honorary Oscar for ”bringing aid and comfort to disabled veterans through the medium of motion pictures.”[5] The special award was created because the Board of Governors wanted to salute Russell, a non-professional actor, but assumed he had little chance for a competitive win.[6] It was the only time in Oscar history that the Academy awarded two Oscars for the same performance.[7]

In 1989, The Best Years of Our Lives was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.[8][5] It was the highest-grossing film in both the United States and United Kingdom since the release of Gone with the Wind. In 2004, it was named the sixth most-attended film of all time in the UK, with over 20 million tickets sold.[9]

Plot

Three returning World War II veterans meet on a flight to their midwestern hometown of Boone City. USAAF bombardier captain Fred Derry had been a drugstore soda jerk who lived with his father and stepmother on the wrong side of the tracks. Before shipping out, Fred married gold-digger Marie after a whirlwind romance. Marie has since been working in a nightclub to fill her time (and her nightlife) in spite of Fred’s generous combat pay as an Air Force officer. U.S. Army sergeant Al Stephenson is a bank executive; he, his wife Milly and their children Peggy and Rob live in a luxury apartment. U.S. Navy petty officer Homer Parrish was a star high school athlete living with his middle-class parents and younger sister, and dating his next-door neighbor Wilma, whom he intended to marry upon his return from the war.

Each man faces challenges integrating back into civilian life. Homer lost both hands in the war; he is reluctant to return home and face his well-meaning parents and their friends, who have a hard time seeing past his disability. Homer can deftly use his mechanical hooks, but hesitates to display affection for Wilma as he cannot believe she will still want to marry him. Al, tired and jaded, returns to the bank and is given a promotion, but wrestles with alcohol. Fred suffers from PTSD flashbacks by night.

Fred arrives home and cannot locate his party girl wife, who does not expect him. The Stephensons and Peggy invite Fred to go out with them, bar-hopping to celebrate Al’s return. An inebriated Fred keeps asking Peggy who she is; she humorously reminds him she’s “Al’s daughter.” When Fred can’t get into his apartment, the Stephensons offer him a bed for the night. Later, Peggy calms Fred during a nightmare, and they develop a mutual attraction. When Peggy and her boyfriend invite Fred and Marie out to dinner, Peggy realizes how shallow and materialistic Marie is and determines to break up Fred’s marriage.

Homer is frustrated and often depressed by his loss of independence. Concerned that Wilma doesn’t fully understand the difficulties of being married to him, Homer demonstrates how she’ll need to assist him when he removes his prosthetic hands at bedtime, leaving him helpless. Wilma reaffirms her love and vows her commitment to a grateful and emotional Homer, who finally embraces her.

Widely respected by the bank’s senior management for his past business acumen, Al is criticized after approving an unsecured loan to a farmer and fellow veteran without collateral. With inhibitions lowered by excessive drinking, Al gives a speech at a work banquet that satirizes requiring a veteran to provide collateral before risking his life to take a hill in battle.

With little work experience and unable to find a better job than soda jerk, Fred returns to the same drugstore. Fred and Peggy’s attraction grows stronger, increasing tensions with Al. When Homer visits Fred at the drugstore, another customer criticizes US involvement in the war, telling Homer his injuries were unnecessary. Homer responds angrily, and Fred punches the customer, for which he’s fired. Marie, frustrated with Fred’s lack of financial success and missing her past nightlife, seeks a divorce.

Bitter and seeing no future in Boone City, especially with Al telling him to stay away from Peggy, Fred decides to catch the next plane out. While waiting at the airport, Fred walks into an aircraft graveyard, climbing into the bombardier’s seat of a decommissioned B-17 bomber. He’s roused from a painful flashback by a work crew foreman, who tells him the planes are being demolished for use in the growing prefab housing industry. Fred asks if they need help in the budding business and is hired.

Al, Milly, and Peggy attend Homer and Wilma’s wedding, where Fred is best man. Now divorced, Fred reunites with Peggy after the ceremony and expresses his love but says things may be financially difficult if she stays with him. Peggy’s smile expresses her joy and she and Fred kiss.

Cast

Casting brought together established stars as well as character actors and relative unknowns. Jazz drummer Gene Krupa was seen in archival footage, while Tennessee Ernie Ford, later a TV star, appeared as an uncredited “hillbilly singer” (in the first of his only three film appearances).[Note 1]

Blake Edwards, later a film producer and director, appeared fleetingly as an uncredited “Corporal”. Wyler’s daughters, Catherine and Judy, were cast as uncredited customers seen in the drug store where Fred Derry works. Sean Penn‘s father, Leo, played the uncredited part of the soldier working as a scheduling clerk in the Air Transport Command Office at the beginning of the film.

Teresa Wright was only 13 years younger than her on-screen mother, played by Myrna Loy.

Michael Hall (1926–2020), who played Rob Stephenson, was the last surviving credited cast member at the time of his death. However, he is never seen after the first third of the film. Hall’s contract with Goldwyn ended during filming, but the producer was reluctant to pay extra money to rehire him.[10]

Production

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.[11][12][13][14] Robert E. Sherwood then adapted the novella as a screenplay.[14]

Director Wyler had flown combat missions over Europe in filming Memphis Belle (1944), and worked hard to get accurate depictions of the combat veterans he had encountered. Wyler changed the original casting, which had featured a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and sought out Harold Russell, a non-actor, to take on the exacting role of Homer Parrish.[15]

For The Best Years of Our Lives, he asked the principal actors to purchase their own clothes, in order to connect with daily life and produce an authentic feeling. Other Wyler touches included constructing life-size sets, which went against the standard larger sets that were more suited to camera positions. The impact for the audience was immediate, as each scene played out in a realistic, natural way.[15]

Recounting the interrelated story of three veterans right after the end of World War II, The Best Years of Our Lives began filming just over seven months after the war’s end, starting on April 15, 1946, at a variety of locations, including the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California, Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, and the Samuel Goldwyn/Warner Hollywood Studios.[15]

In The Best Years of Our Lives cinematographer Gregg Toland used deep focus photography, in which objects both close to and distant from the camera are in sharp focus.[16] For the passage of Fred Derry’s reliving a combat mission while sitting in the remains of a former bomber, Wyler used “zoom” effects to simulate Derry’s subjective state.[17]

The fictional Boone City was patterned after Cincinnati, Ohio.[13] The “Jackson High” football stadium seen early in aerial footage of the bomber flying over the Boone City is Corcoran Stadium located at Xavier University in Cincinnati. A few seconds later Walnut Hills High School with its dome and football field can be seen along with the downtown Cincinnati skyline (Carew Tower and Fourth and Vine Tower) in the background.[18]

After the war, the combat aircraft featured in the film were being destroyed and disassembled for reuse as scrap material. The scene of Derry’s walking among aircraft ruins was filmed at the Ontario Army Air Field in Ontario, California. The former training facility had been converted into a scrap yard, housing nearly 2,000 former combat aircraft in various states of disassembly and reclamation.[15]

Reception

Critical response

Upon its release, The Best Years of Our Lives received extremely positive reviews from critics. Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece. He wrote,

It is seldom that there comes a motion picture which can be wholly and enthusiastically endorsed not only as superlative entertainment, but as food for quiet and humanizing thought… In working out their solutions, Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Wyler have achieved some of the most beautiful and inspiring demonstrations of human fortitude that we have had in films.” He also said the ensemble casting gave the “‘best’ performance in this best film this year from Hollywood”.[19]

Deep focus framing.
Director Wyler and cinematographer Toland used deep focus to keep Fred visible in the phone booth in the far background of the frame.

French film critic André Bazin used examples of Toland’s and Wyler’s deep-focus visual style to illuminate his theory of realism in film—going into detail about the scene in which Fred uses the phone booth in the far background while Homer and Butch play piano in the foreground. Bazin explains how deep focus functions in this scene:

The action in the foreground is secondary, although interesting and peculiar enough to require our keen attention since it occupies a privileged place and surface on the screen. Paradoxically, the true action, the one that constitutes at this precise moment a turning point in the story, develops almost clandestinely in a tiny rectangle at the back of the room—in the left corner of the screen…. Thus the viewer is induced actively to participate in the drama planned by the director.[20]

Professor and author Gabriel Miller discusses briefly the use of deep-focus in both the bar scene and the wedding scene at the end of the picture in an article written for the National Film Preservation Board.[21]

From The Nation in 1946, critic James Agee wrote, “In fact, it would be possible, I don’t doubt, to call the whole picture just one long pious piece of deceit and self-deceit, embarrassed by hot flashes of talent, conscience, truthfulness, and dignity. And it is anyhow more than possible, it is unhappily obligatory, to observe that a good deal which might have been very fine, even great, and which is handled mainly by people who could have done, and done perfectly, all the best that could have been developed out of the idea, is here either murdered in its cradle or reduced to manageable good citizenship in the early stages of grade school. Yet I feel a hundred times more liking and admiration for the film than distaste or disappointment.”[22]

Several decades later, film critic David Thomson offered tempered praise: “I would concede that Best Years is decent and humane… acutely observed, despite being so meticulous a package. It would have taken uncommon genius and daring at that time to sneak a view of an untidy or unresolved America past Goldwyn or the public.”[23] Pauline Kael wrote, “Despite its seven Academy Awards, it’s not a great picture; it’s too schematic and it drags on after you get the points. However, episodes and details stand out and help to compensate for the soggy plot strands and there’s something absorbing about the banality of its large-scale good intentions; it’s compulsively watchable.”[24]

The Best Years of Our Lives has a 97% “Fresh” rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 105 reviews. The critical consensus states: “An engrossing look at the triumphs and travails of war veterans, The Best Years of Our Lives is concerned specifically with the aftermath of World War II, but its messages speak to the overall American experience.”[25] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 93 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[26]

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert put the film on his “Great Movies” list in 2007, calling it “… modern, lean, and honest”.[27]

The Best Years of Our Lives was a massive commercial success. It opened to the public at the Astor Theatre in New York City on November 22, 1946, and grossed $52,236 in its first week. Its length restricted the film to six shows a day, cutting down on total ticket sales, and initially suffered by having a top midweek ticket price of $2.40, reducing gross revenue. It opened at the Woods Theatre in Chicago on December 18 before a roadshow theatrical release in Boston and Los Angeles, starting on the evening of Christmas Day.[28] After 12 weeks at the Astor, the film had grossed $584,000 and at that point had grossed $1.37 million from six theatres in five cities from 45 play weeks.[29]

The picture earned $7.65 million in theatrical rentals at the U.S. and Canadian box office during its initial theatrical run,[30] ultimately benefiting from much larger admission prices (reflecting its exceptional length) than the majority of films released that year, which accounted for almost 70% of its earnings.[31] When box office figures are adjusted for inflation, it remains one of the top 100 grossing films in U.S. history.

Among films released before 1950, only Gone With the Wind, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Big Parade and four Disney titles have done more total business, in part due to later re-releases. (Reliable box office figures for certain early films such as The Birth of a Nation and Charlie Chaplin‘s comedies are unavailable.)[32]

However, because of the distribution arrangement RKO had with Goldwyn, RKO recorded a loss of $660,000 on the film.[33]

Awards and honors

In spite of his role, Harold Russell was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar he had been nominated for, they gave him an Academy Honorary Award “for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance”. When Russell in fact won as supporting actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance. In 1992, Russell sold his Best Supporting Actor statuette at auction for $60,500 ($138,800 today), to pay his wife’s medical bills.[34]

AwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
Academy AwardsBest Motion PictureSamuel Goldwyn ProductionsWon[4]
Best DirectorWilliam WylerWon
Best ActorFredric MarchWon
Best Supporting ActorHarold RussellWon
Best ScreenplayRobert E. SherwoodWon
Best Film EditingDaniel MandellWon
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy PictureHugo FriedhoferWon
Best Sound RecordingGordon E. SawyerNominated
Academy Honorary AwardHarold RussellWon
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial AwardSamuel GoldwynWon
Bodil AwardsBest American FilmWilliam WylerWon[35]
British Academy Film AwardsBest Film from any SourceWon[36]
Brussels World Film FestivalBest ActressMyrna LoyWon
Cinema Writers Circle AwardsBest Foreign FilmWon
Golden Globe AwardsBest PictureWon[37]
Special Achievement AwardHarold RussellWon
Karlovy Vary International Film FestivalCrystal GlobeWilliam WylerNominated
Best DirectorWon
Best ScreenplayRobert E. SherwoodWon
National Board of Review AwardsTop Ten Films3rd Place[38]
Best DirectorWilliam WylerWon
National Film Preservation BoardNational Film RegistryInducted[5]
New York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest FilmWon
Best DirectorWilliam WylerWon
Best ActorFredric MarchNominated
Online Film & Television Association AwardsFilm Hall of Fame: ProductionsWon[39]

American Film Institute

In 2006, Writers Guild of America West ranked its screenplay 44th in WGA’s list of 101 Greatest Screenplays.[43]

Radio adaptations

The picture received four half-hour radio adaptations during 1947 and 1949: on Hedda Hopper‘s This Is Hollywood, The Screen Guild Theater (two) and Screen Directors Playhouse. In each case various actors reprised their film roles.[44][45]

References

Informational notes

  1.  At the time the film was shot, Ford was unknown as a singer. He worked in San Bernardino as a radio announcer-disc jockey.

Citations

  1.  Thomson 1993, pp. 490–491.
  2.  “Variety (January 1947)”. 1947.
  3.  ” ‘Best Years of Our Lives’ (1946).” Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: February 4, 2010.
  4.  “The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners”. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  5.  “Complete National Film Registry Listing”. Library of Congress. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  6.  Montgomery, Mark (December 10, 2016). “Remembering Harold Russell, the soldier-actor who won two Oscars for ‘Best Years of Our Lives'”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  7.  Stilwell, Blake (December 23, 2019). “This Disabled WWII Veteran Was the Only Actor to Win 2 Oscars for the Same Part”. Military.com. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  8.  “ENTERTAINMENT: Film Registry Picks First 25 Movies”. Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  9.  “The Ultimate Chart: 1–100”. British Film Institute. November 28, 2004. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  10.  “In memory of Michael Hall, a committed connoisseur and an unforgettable character”. June 16, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  11.  Kantor, MacKinlay (1945). Glory for Me. Coward-McCann. OCLC 773996.
  12.  Easton, Carol (2014). “The Best Years”. The Search for Sam Goldwyn. Carl Rollyson (contributor). Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-132-4. Andrews looked at the onionskin pages and asked, ‘Mac, why did you write this in blank verse?’ ‘Dana’, said Kantor with a wry smile, ‘I can’t afford to write in blank verse, because nobody buys anything written in blank verse. But when Sam asked me to write this story, he didn’t tell me not to write it in blank verse!’
  13.  Orriss 1984, p. 119.
  14.  Levy, Emanuel (April 4, 2015). “Oscar History: Best Picture–Best Years of Our Lives (1946)”. Emanuel Levy: Cinema 24/7. Archived from the original (review) on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  15.  Orriss 1984, p. 121.
  16.  Kehr, Dave. “‘The Best Years of Our Lives’.” The Chicago Reader. Retrieved: November 6, 2022.
  17.  Orriss 1984, pp. 121–122.
  18.  “Trivia: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’.” Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: November 6, 2022.
  19.  Crowther, Bosley. The Best Years of our Lives. The New York Times, November 22, 1946. Retrieved: April 26, 2007.
  20.  Bazin, André (1997). “William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing”. In Cardullo, Bert (ed.). Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties & Fifties. New York: Routledge. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-415-90018-8.
  21.  Gabriel Miller, The Best Years of Our Lives, https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/best_years.pdf Accessed 11/14/2022
  22.  Agee, James – Agee on Film Vol.1 © 1958 by The James Agee Trust.
  23.  Thomson, 2002, p. 949. 4th Edition; the first edition was published in 1975. See Thomson, David (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema. London: Secker & Warburg. OCLC 1959828.
  24.  Kael, Pauline – 5001 Nights at the Movies 1991 ISBN 0-8050-1366-0
  25.  “The Best Years of Our Lives”. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved February 4, 2026.
  26.  “The Best Years of Our Lives Reviews”. Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
  27.  Ebert, Roger. “The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).” Chicago Sun Times, December 29, 2007. Retrieved: May 1, 2021.
  28.  “Goldwyn Points to Wow ‘Best Years’ Biz To Refute Selznick Nix of ‘Problem’ Pix”. Variety. January 15, 1947. p. 9. Retrieved January 12, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  29.  “‘Best Years’ 750G Take In 5 Cities”. Variety. January 15, 1947. p. 9. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  30.  “Richard B. Jewell’s RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment”. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1994.
  31.  “Upped Scale Films Cop ‘Win, Place, Show’ Spots in Gross Sweepstakes”. Variety. January 7, 1948. p. 63. Retrieved June 11, 2019 – via Archive.org.
  32.  “All-time Films (adjusted).” Box Office Mojo. Retrieved: September 19, 2010.
  33.  Richard B. Jewell, Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures, Uni of California, 2016
  34.  Bergan, Ronald. “Obituary: Harold Russell; Brave actor whose artificial hands helped him win two Oscars”. The Guardian, February 6, 2002. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  35.  “The Bodil Prize 1948”. Bodil Awards. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  36.  “BAFTA Awards: Film in 1949”. British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  37.  “The Best Years of Our Lives”. Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  38.  “1946 Award Winners”. National Board of Review. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  39.  “Film Hall of Fame: Productions”. Online Film & Television Association. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  40.  “American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest Movies” (PDF). connect.afi.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 14, 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  41.  “AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 CHEERS” (PDF). connect.afi.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 22, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  42.  “AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES – 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION” (PDF). connect.afi.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 7, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  43.  “101 Greatest Screenplays”. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  44.  “The Best Years of Our Lives”. Classic Movie Hub.
  45.  “Those Were the Days”. Nostalgia Digest. Vol. 38, no. 4. Autumn 2012. p. 35.

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