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3 unusual facts about The Best Years of Our Lives


Corcoran Stadium

Corcoran Stadium can be seen in the 1946 classic movie The Best Years of Our Lives.

Emil Newman

He had 15 titles in 1943, including "Musical Direction" for the all-black musical Stormy Weather and the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, 19 in 1944, 17 in 1945 and 16 in 1946, including Hugo Friedhofer's Academy Award score for The Best Years of Our Lives, which he also conducted.

They Live by Night

Both Granger and O'Donnell were under contract to Samuel Goldwyn and had limited acting experience behind them—Granger had been in two films before being drafted for World War II while O'Donnell had just made the classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) but Ray was fiercely loyal and fought for both of them.



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