Alison Macor
@agmacor.bsky.social
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Author of HAIR DOWN, CLAWS OUT: GEORGE CUKOR AND THE MAKING OF THE WOMEN (coming 2026!), MAKING BEST YEARS (now in paperback!), CHAINSAWS, SLACKERS, AND SPY KIDS and REWRITE MAN. PhD. Ghostwriter. Film fan.
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Hear that a lot, which is gratifying. Thanks for sharing!
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
#MyrnaLoy on leaving H'wood during #WWII to work for the Red Cross: "I'll never forget the first time I came back home alone from Baltimore, on the train, at night...I hadn't been alone on any public conveyance of any kind....I began to have the time of my life." #TCMParty
Harold and Rita Russell in the Cub Room of the Stork Club in NYC ca. 1946. #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #Disability
An ad for Parker Quink pens featuring #DanaAndrews in advance of the release of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. #TCMParty
On #TCM now: #TheWomen! “MGM had tested everybody but Lassie & Mrs. Roosevelt for The Women," said #RosalindRussell. "Even the maids’ roles were fought over.” Here w/ #NormaShearer, Joan Fontaine (behind RR), Hedda Hopper & George Cukor. #TCMParty #nextbook
One of my favorite #WWII photos of #WilliamWyler, taken in England while he was shooting footage of Queen Elizabeth's visit to RAF Bassingbourn to congratulate the crew, for the wartime documentary THE MEMPHIS BELLE. 📸Wyler Family #TCMParty #Veterans
Sounds like a plan....😉
Tonight on #TCM: #DanaAndrews in LAURA, the film that elevated Andrews' career and earned him notices like “unhackneyed and refreshing," "a solidly persuasive performer," and "the most believable detective ever to be seen on the screen.” #TCMParty
Gen. Omar Bradley on #TheBestYearsOfOurLives: "Here is a movie that...tells what happened to the lives of three (#Veterans)...to the lives of their girls, their wives...." With Liberty Films’ #WilliamWyler, Frank Capra, George Stevens & wives Talli, Lu, Mary, & Yvonne. #TCMParty
A glimpse of #DanaAndrews to start the week! Shown here taking a break on the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives with William Wyler and art director Perry Ferguson. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
Later this a.m. on #TCM! #ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice opened during prod. of #TheBestYearsofOurLives. Joe Breen hinted critics were already objecting to POSTMAN's explicitness (not true), so Sam Goldwyn should heed his warnings about censoring the BEST YEARS script. #TCMParty
Not 100% sure but it might be Marie Blake (Grandmama on The Addams Family), who's credited as stockroom girl. Still, I think the actress in TW looks too young to be her. Working on a book about the film, haven't found a complete list in MGM files.
The Women (1939) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
The Women (1939) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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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
On #TCM tonight, #TheSoundofMusic was originally offered to #WilliamWyler. Wyler eventually left the project, said daughter Melanie, because "given his background and Jewish heritage, he couldn’t, in his words, ‘make a movie about singing Nazis.’” #TCMParty
#VirginiaMayo's dramatic turn in #TheBestYearsofOurLives helped her get cast beyond musicals in films like WHITE HEAT. Mayo's favorite scene? When inmate #JamesCagney learns his mother has died: "It is powerful, compelling, horrifying and all Cagney!" she said. #TCMParty
I'm not sure--it looks like someone took the Czech coat of arms, turned it on its side and exaggerated it?!
What my relatives in the Czech Republic saw at their local marquee ca. 1947. One of the few advertising images from #TheBestYearsofOurLives with #HoagyCarmichael in the mix. #TCMParty #MoviePoster
Images of #WilliamWyler with RKO sound man Harold Tannenbaum (L) and others during #WWII from Wyler's personal collection. Tannenbaum was KIA shooting footage for THE MEMPHIS BELLE. #TCMParty📸 Wyler Family
Sorry to hear--hope I wasn't too intrusive!
That tracks with everything I've heard from people who've met him! But your story makes me hope you're still married too 😉
Samuel Goldwyn hired Audience Research, Inc. for the Long Beach, CA sneak preview of #TheBestYearsOfOurLives. The audience's EQ (Enthusiasm Quotient) was highest for #DanaAndrews and #FredricMarch (46%), with #TeresaWright (35%) and #HaroldRussell (24%) next. #TCMParty
On the set of #TheBestYearsofOurLives: #HaroldRussell and #CathyODonnell relax between takes of the tense woodshed sequence. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes