The Best Years of Our Lives - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Best Years of Our Lives"
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Timing:
2:51 (171 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Editor
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Art Direction
George Jenkins
Art Direction
Perry Ferguson
Art Direction
Costume Design
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Robert Stephanoff
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Supervising Sound Editor
Gordon Sawyer
Supervising Sound Editor
Hairstylist
Marie Clark
Hairstylist
Screenplay
Novel
MacKinlay Kantor
Novel
Special Effects
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Harry Redmond Sr.
Special Effects
Gaffer
Bill McLellan
Gaffer
Assistant Director
Jonathan C. Boyle
Assistant Director
Sound
Larry Gannon
Sound
Sound Recordist
Richard DeWeese
Sound Recordist
Music Director
Emil Newman
Music Director
What's left behind the scenes
- A film adaptation of McKinley Kantor's novel 'Glory for Me'.
- The film had two working titles – 'Glory for Us' and 'Back Home'. Eventually, it was decided to settle on the current version, which caused dissatisfaction from the author of the source novel, McKinley Kantor.
- 'The Best Years of Our Lives' is director William Wyler's first post-war work and his last film for Samuel Goldwyn Company.
- Samuel Goldwyn originally intended to cast Theresa Wright, Dana Andrews, David Niven, Farley Granger, Walter Brennan, and Constance Dowling in the film. Ultimately, only the first two from this list were cast.
- June Haver, a 20th Century Fox star, was originally slated to play the role of Millie Stephenson, but was replaced by Myrna Loy.
- The fictional city of Boon City was filmed in Sacramento and Los Angeles, but according to the film's press release, Cincinnati served as its prototype.
- The film's advertising campaign lasted six months and cost half a million dollars.
- In 1989, the film was deemed nationally significant and added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
- Filming took place from April 15 to August 9, 1946, and the premiere was held in New York City on November 21 of the same year.
- Director William Wyler was indignant to learn that Samuel Goldwyn had sent Harold Russell to acting lessons. He believed that Russell's performance would be more natural without preparation. Furthermore, striving to make the film as realistic as possible, Wyler insisted that the entire supporting crew be recruited from real World War II veterans.
- On August 6, 1992, Harold Russell auctioned off the Oscar statuette he received for Best Supporting Actor for sixty-and-a-half thousand dollars.
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