The Best Years of Our Lives

Introduction and comments following The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and Gregory Cooke.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Introduction and comments following The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guests Juliet Taylor and David Rubin.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Guest host Michael Phillips introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Guest host Dana Delaney introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Robert Osborne Introduces The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Big moment for novice actor Harold Russell, in the role that won him two Academy Awards, as veteran Homer, some weeks into his return home, girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell) insisting nothing has changed, Marlene Aames his young sister, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946,

Among the most famous, and probably best scenes Myrna Loy ever played, as Milly, wife of WWII veteran Al Stephenson (Fredric March), surprising her and the kids (Teresa Wright, Michael Hall) with his slightly-early return home, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Just home from the war, decorated Air Force captain Fred (Dana Andrews) really isn't seeking his old job, but visiting his old boss (Erskine Sanford), and meeting the man (Howland Chamberlin) from the chain that bought him out, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Newly back in town Fred (Dana Andrews), having crashed at her place after carousing with her fellow-veteran father, is delivered by teen Peggy (Teresa Wright) indirectly to his wife (Virginia Mayo), whom he is seeing for the first time, in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

De-mobbed Fred (Dana Andrews), Al (Fredric March) and Homer (Harold Russell), chatting in the nose of the plane, headed home to Boone City, early in William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Hoagy Carmichael as "Butch," bar owner, receiving the Stephensons (Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright), Fred (Dana Andrews) and Homer (Harold Russell), playing his own "Up A Lazy River," in The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946.

Seven Oscars including Best Picture went to this story of America immediately after World War II, The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946).