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Best Writing Original Story | 1944
ParajanovVartanov Institute Award For | 2013
ParajanovVartanov Institute Award | 2013
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1944
Best Director | 1944 | Clarence
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1944 | Mickey
Best Picture | 1944
Best Film | 1943
Budget 1,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,900,000 USD
Writer William Saroyan wanted desperately to direct the film despite having no experience in directing. Louis B. Mayer told Saroyan that he would consider the request and assigned the writer to direct a one reel short. The short film was a disappointment and studio stalwart Clarence Brown was promptly assigned. Saroyan was so bitter about the experience he wrote a play about Mayer soon after titled "Get Away Old Man". He also adapted the story he wrote for the film into a novel, which was published within weeks of the movie premiere and became a best seller.
As of April 2022, 104-year old Marsha Hunt (who plays Diana Steed) and Darryl Hickman (Lionel) were the only surviving cast members.
The movie the two girls and three soldiers attend is Mrs. Miniver (1942). The movie Lionel is standing in line for is Ship Ahoy (1942). Both movies, of course, are MGM productions.
Don DeFore and Robert Mitchum were the soldiers with Barry Nelson.
Tom Spangler drives a 1942 Mercury convertible; Diana Steed drives a 1942 Lincoln Continental. Both of them were the last models to roll off the assembly line before the World War II shutdown, after which only military vehicles were produced for the next four years.
"Mr. Macauley: I am Matthew Macauley. I have been dead for two years. So much of me is still living that I know now the end is only the beginning. As I look down on my homeland of Ithaca, California, with its cactus, vineyards and orchards, I see that so much of me is still living there - in the places I've been, in the fields and streets and church and most of all in my home, where my hopes, my dreams, my ambitions still live in the daily life of my loved ones."
"Librarian: What are you boys looking for? Lionel: Books. Librarian: What books are you looking for? Lionel: All of them. Librarian: What do you want with them? Lionel: We wanna look at em. Librarian: Books are for reading. Lionel: Can't I just Look at em? Librarian: That's not what the public library is for boy, but you can look into them and look at the pictures in them. What do you want the outsides for? Lionel: I like to. can't i? Librarian: There's no law against it... Who's this? Lionel: That's Ulysses. He can't read. Librarian: Can you? Lionel: No. But he can't either. That's why we're friends, he's the only other man I know who can't read Librarian: One day, when you learn to read, you'll find there's a great deal to be said for the inside of books. I've been reading for 70 years and it hasn't been nearly long enough. Now run along and look at the books. Lionel: Yes ma'am"
