Robert Osborne Intro - The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)

Best Years Of Our Lives, The - (Re-issueTrailer)

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

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Wanna See The Freak?

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,

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Dropped Bombs

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.

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's Home!

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.

Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Nervous Out Of The Service

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.

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Among My Souvenirs

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.

Best Years Of Our Lives, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Looking For My Wife

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.