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Week before last, twelve out of eighteen of the New York Film Crities named Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn; RKO Radio; TIME...
...final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make one postwar picture for Samuel Goldwyn, turned out the excellent The Best Years of Our Lives before he could join...
...operating expenses. Mary and Charlie therefore began taking in new partners. But something always went wrong. Usually, Mary and Charlie thought the newcomers tried to run things too much their own way. So the newcomers had to go. In rapid succession, such notables as Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Alexander Korda went through U.A.'s revolving door...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Hollywood's best movie, to date, on the postwar world. Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell in Director William Wyler's moving, honest, highly polished Goldwyn production (TIME...