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...Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to 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...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Hollywood's best movie, to date, on the post-war world. Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Harold Russell in William Wyler's highly polished Goldwyn production (TIME...
...Best Years of Our Lives. Ex-Servicemen Fredric March and Dana An drews, soothed by Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright, tackle reconversion in Director William Wyler's moving, honest, highly polished Goldwyn production (TIME, Nov.25...
...Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story was one which appealed to able Director William Wyler (Wuthering Heights, The Memphis Belle), who confesses that his 3½ years in the Air Forces gave him a few personal reconversion problems...
Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...