Alison Macor
@agmacor.bsky.social
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.
What do director #Stevenspielberg and comedian #JohnMulaney have in common? They’re superfans of #TheBestYearsofOurLives—on #TCM this afternoon. Great pick for #VeteransDay, TCM! My fave, too 😉#TCMParty
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What do director #Stevenspielberg and comedian #JohnMulaney have in common? They’re superfans of #TheBestYearsofOurLives—on #TCM this afternoon. Great pick for #VeteransDay, TCM! My fave, too 😉#TCMParty
The entrance to #GeorgeCukor’s former home. When he purchased the property at 9166 Cordell Dr. in 1934, MGM production head Irving Thalberg told him, “Go ahead, George, spend a lot of money. I love to have directors in debt, it forces them to work harder.” #TCMParty #OldHollywood
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The entrance to #GeorgeCukor’s former home. When he purchased the property at 9166 Cordell Dr. in 1934, MGM production head Irving Thalberg told him, “Go ahead, George, spend a lot of money. I love to have directors in debt, it forces them to work harder.” #TCMParty #OldHollywood
PCA letter to MGM: "Dear Mr. Mayer: We have received and read the temporary complete script for..#TheWizardofOz....We call your attention to...page 97B: A horrible or gruesome effect in the death of the witch must be avoided...." On #TCM tonight! #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
PCA letter to MGM: "Dear Mr. Mayer: We have received and read the temporary complete script for..#TheWizardofOz....We call your attention to...page 97B: A horrible or gruesome effect in the death of the witch must be avoided...." On #TCM tonight! #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
As part of his prep for the role of Fred in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #DanaAndrews took Rexall Drug's fountain training course. His "grad thesis" involved scooping for a day at the Rexall-owned Owl Drug store near Hollywood High, where he was swarmed by "bobby-soxers." #TCMParty
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As part of his prep for the role of Fred in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #DanaAndrews took Rexall Drug's fountain training course. His "grad thesis" involved scooping for a day at the Rexall-owned Owl Drug store near Hollywood High, where he was swarmed by "bobby-soxers." #TCMParty
November '46, in the weeks before the NYC premiere of #TheBestYearsofOurLives, Sam Goldwyn writes to #DanaAndrews: "You'll be pleased to know that you made a big hit at a sneak preview we had Thursday night. Most of the cards say it's the best thing you've ever done." #TCMParty
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
November '46, in the weeks before the NYC premiere of #TheBestYearsofOurLives, Sam Goldwyn writes to #DanaAndrews: "You'll be pleased to know that you made a big hit at a sneak preview we had Thursday night. Most of the cards say it's the best thing you've ever done." #TCMParty
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Before he played a banker in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #FredricMarch explored his dark(er?) side in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, on #TCM this a.m. March won the Best Actor Oscar for both films although he shared the earlier win with Wallace Beery (THE CHAMP). #TCMParty #Halloween2025
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Before he played a banker in #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #FredricMarch explored his dark(er?) side in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, on #TCM this a.m. March won the Best Actor Oscar for both films although he shared the earlier win with Wallace Beery (THE CHAMP). #TCMParty #Halloween2025
nyone else love the atmospheric swimming pool sequence in CAT PEOPLE (1942)? Produced by #ValLewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur, it's the perfect movie to lead into Mischief Night (that's a thing, btw). On #TCM this evening. #TCMParty #BlackCat
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
nyone else love the atmospheric swimming pool sequence in CAT PEOPLE (1942)? Produced by #ValLewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur, it's the perfect movie to lead into Mischief Night (that's a thing, btw). On #TCM this evening. #TCMParty #BlackCat
"Stars in #Hollywood use Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1": #TeresaWright in one of the many "tie-ups" to promote #TheBestYearsofOurLives in the fall of 1946. #TCMParty
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"Stars in #Hollywood use Jergens Lotion, 7 to 1": #TeresaWright in one of the many "tie-ups" to promote #TheBestYearsofOurLives in the fall of 1946. #TCMParty
When #NormaShearer's husband Irving Thalberg was reluctant to cast her in MGM's THE DIVORCEE (1931), she hired #GeorgeHurrell to take photos like this to convince Thalberg she could be seductive. It worked. See Shearer in the lead tonight on #TCM! #TCMParty #ClassicHollywood
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
When #NormaShearer's husband Irving Thalberg was reluctant to cast her in MGM's THE DIVORCEE (1931), she hired #GeorgeHurrell to take photos like this to convince Thalberg she could be seductive. It worked. See Shearer in the lead tonight on #TCM! #TCMParty #ClassicHollywood
From Teresa Wright's contract ca. 1946: "I will not pose in shorts, playing with a cute cocker spaniel. I will not be shown happily whipping up a meal for a huge family." #BOTD #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #TeresaWright
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From Teresa Wright's contract ca. 1946: "I will not pose in shorts, playing with a cute cocker spaniel. I will not be shown happily whipping up a meal for a huge family." #BOTD #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #TeresaWright
October 26, 1947: Hollywood stars like #LaurenBacall, #HumphreyBogart, #MarshaHunt, and #DannyKaye--known as the "Airborne 22"--land in Washington, D.C. on the eve of MPAA president Eric Johnston's testimony in front of #HUAC. #TCMParty
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
October 26, 1947: Hollywood stars like #LaurenBacall, #HumphreyBogart, #MarshaHunt, and #DannyKaye--known as the "Airborne 22"--land in Washington, D.C. on the eve of MPAA president Eric Johnston's testimony in front of #HUAC. #TCMParty
For #JohnWaters, #WilliamCastle "was God" and inspired his own career. Like a reported 20 million other Americans, a young Waters got his butt buzzed by Percepto, the gimmick in THE TINGLER. See the movie later tonight on #TCM! #TCMParty
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
For #JohnWaters, #WilliamCastle "was God" and inspired his own career. Like a reported 20 million other Americans, a young Waters got his butt buzzed by Percepto, the gimmick in THE TINGLER. See the movie later tonight on #TCM! #TCMParty
#JudyGarland and #GeorgeCukor on the set of A STAR IS BORN (1954), on #TCM tomorrow. "She told me she never wept before on screen, never screamed, never had a big scene," Cukor told biographer Gavin Lambert. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#JudyGarland and #GeorgeCukor on the set of A STAR IS BORN (1954), on #TCM tomorrow. "She told me she never wept before on screen, never screamed, never had a big scene," Cukor told biographer Gavin Lambert. #TCMParty #BehindTheScenes
On Oct. 19, 1947 at Chicago's Soldier Field, on the eve of the #HUAC hearings in D.C., #HaroldRussell made one of his most meaningful appearances after #TheBestYearsofOurLives to speak in honor of the first war dead to be sent home from the Pacific. #TCMParty #Veterans 📸 Getty
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
On Oct. 19, 1947 at Chicago's Soldier Field, on the eve of the #HUAC hearings in D.C., #HaroldRussell made one of his most meaningful appearances after #TheBestYearsofOurLives to speak in honor of the first war dead to be sent home from the Pacific. #TCMParty #Veterans 📸 Getty
A month before the opening of #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #DanaAndrews was getting very good notices for another #WWII movie, A WALK IN THE SUN, hailed by one critic as “the most important part of his screen career." #TCMParty
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A month before the opening of #TheBestYearsofOurLives, #DanaAndrews was getting very good notices for another #WWII movie, A WALK IN THE SUN, hailed by one critic as “the most important part of his screen career." #TCMParty
From #TheBestYearsofOurLives' shooting script when Homer (#HaroldRussell) raises his arm to wave to Fred (#DanaAndrews) & Al (#FredricMarch) as their taxi pulls away. Direction for Mrs. Parrish (#MinnaGombell): "...she is forced into a great sobbing release of tears." #TCMParty
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
From #TheBestYearsofOurLives' shooting script when Homer (#HaroldRussell) raises his arm to wave to Fred (#DanaAndrews) & Al (#FredricMarch) as their taxi pulls away. Direction for Mrs. Parrish (#MinnaGombell): "...she is forced into a great sobbing release of tears." #TCMParty
In 1946 #OTD, the 1s preview of #TheBestYearsofOurLives screened at United Artists Theatre in Long Beach, CA. Of the 314 cards returned, 200+ ranked the movie as "excellent," "very good," "wonderful" and"best ever" despite the long running time. #TCMParty 📷 Mahan Collection
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In 1946 #OTD, the 1s preview of #TheBestYearsofOurLives screened at United Artists Theatre in Long Beach, CA. Of the 314 cards returned, 200+ ranked the movie as "excellent," "very good," "wonderful" and"best ever" despite the long running time. #TCMParty 📷 Mahan Collection
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
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Harold and Rita Russell in the Cub Room of the Stork Club in NYC ca. 1946. #TCMParty #TheBestYearsofOurLives #Disability
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
October 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
October 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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