Alison Macor

The book that @TomDohertyfilm in CINEASTE praised as “intelligent, sensitive, and respectful…discerning and affectionate" about the making of #TheBestYearsofOurLives—now in paperback! Available where books are sold. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes #Veterans #WWII

Thelma #ButterflyMcQueen in her first uncredited role as Lulu in #TheWomen, whom #JoanCrawford pays to cook dinner to impress her married boyfriend. “I didn’t mind being funny, but I didn’t like being stupid,” McQueen said of her roles, in 1990. #TCMParty #nextbook

@davidpom2000 I'll say.

@agmacor Of course Hitch got around that in Notorious.

Censor Joe Breen sent an 8-page memo in April ‘46 to #SamuelGoldwyn re: #TheBestYearsOfOurLives, warning to take “the greatest possible care in the shooting of all scenes of kissing. These should not be prolonged, or lustful...NO OPEN-MOUTHED KISSING.” #TCMParty #censorship

@RandoMantooth Appreciate that!

@agmacor Added your book to my queue 🦾

@RandoMantooth Love that book! I TA'd for Tom Schatz through grad school and he's become a good friend.

@agmacor Breen's in the book I'm reading now (Genius of the System), bitching at Selznick over a pat on the ass in Nothing Sacred lol

@obsessafilma We all help each other. Keep going--tough times for sure!

@agmacor I'm still a baby of less than 3 so I appreciate you, auntie!

Joseph Breen is a fascinating person to talk about, and I don't mean that in a positive way. The man had so many psychological/philosophical paradoxes going on he could serve as a whole semester-long course subject on his own.

@obsessafilma I taught film history for 20+ years. I still have hope 😉

@agmacor There'd be so many students registering as well! Maybe even three or four!

@tmdess @obsessafilma I'd recommend Thomas Doherty's HOLLYWOOD CENSOR, for starters.

@obsessafilma Is there a good biography of Breen?

@jacmcgee Hi! It's not been announced yet, but I WILL be introducing BEST YEARS at the TCMFF this year. I hope we can meet in person!

@agmacor I am thrilled!

@agmacor Hi ! You probably know that today tcm announced that Best Years will be on the TCMFF schedule this year !! Any chance u will present? I will be there and can’t wait to see this great film on big screen!!!!!

#OTD in '46 #BetteDavis wrote to ex #WilliamWyler declaring a truce after he sent flowers for the death of her beloved dog: "As I said the night of the Academy [awards], the war should be over between us--it is so long ago--and so much happened to both of us." #TCMParty #Jezebel

#MyrnaLoy in 1946 at the November 21 premiere of #TheBestYearsofOurLives in New York City at the Astor Theatre. #TCMParty

@JEV1A He was brilliant, and he did a remarkable job in trying to help himself re: his alcoholism.

@agmacor I felt so sorry for Dana, in those days very little help for alcoholism but Andrew's was brilliant as Captain Fred Derry and his incredibly eerie flight to nowhere scene.

#TeresaWright, #MyrnaLoy, and #DanaAndrews relaxing between takes of the "night on the town" scene in #TheBestYearsofOurLives ca. May 1946. #TCMParty

@MDW23 No pressure 😉

@agmacor It’s probably too big for my scanner but I can take photos.

@MDW23 Ooohhh, that sounds awesome! Would love to see images if it's easy to share digitally.

@agmacor Interesting! The wardrobe book sounds pretty cool. BTW, I’m waiting on delivery of the 1954 reissue press book which I found on the ‘Bay.

@MDW23 That would be a find! But almost sounds too "rich" for Goldwyn to do. Come to think of it, I didn't see anything in the wardrobe book so maybe it was Andrews'?

@agmacor I wonder if Dana Andrews’ ID bracelet had Fred Derry engraved on it.

Just as #TheBestYearsofOurLives was named the top picture of 1947 by Film Daily, #OliviadeHavilland reached out to #WilliamWyler about adapting the play “The Heiress,” which would eventually become Wyler’s next film project. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes

@FlaFan Unfortunately, not in the piece I read.

@agmacor Did he specify the scenes he found unrealistic?

In 1947 writer-director #RobertRossen, whose film BODY AND SOUL was about to be released, named #TheBestYearsofOurLives as the only American film he found realistic, but added that even it "had some phony moments." Rossen on-set with DP #JamesWongHowe and Hazel Brooks. #TCMParty