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The Best Years of Our Lives

Screen Guild Theater · November 24, 1947 · 29 min · 4,589 words

The transcript of “The Best Years of Our Lives”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast November 24, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, Camel Cigarettes present the Screen Gill Players. There's Miniloy, Frederick March, and Theresa Wright, our play, The Best Years of Our Lives, our sponsor, Camel Cigarettes. Experience is the best teacher.

Try a camel, let your own experience tell you why more people are smoking camels than ever before. Try a camel on your T-zone, that's T for taste and T for throat, where you actually judge any cigarette.

See if you don't say like millions of other smokers, camels suit my T-zone to a T. And now with great pride, camel cigarettes present the Screen Guild players in the picture that won nine Academy Awards this past year.

Samuel Goldwyn's memorable story, The Best Years of Our Lives, starring Frederick Martt, Myrna Loy and Theresa Wright as Al and Millie Stevenson and their daughter Peggy, the roles they portrayed so brilliantly in the screen with George B. Van as Fred.

as Fred. The camel screen-gill players in the best years of our lives. I got to hunch that most men feel the same way. Going off to war isn't so bad. The really tough part is coming home. That day there were three of us coming back.

Coming back together, but that was an accident. We'd all hitch to ride on the same army plane. Fred Derry, an Army Air Force's captain, young and good-looking, myself, myself, Al Stevenson, infantry sergeant, not too young and not too good looking at the moment under a three day growth of beard, and Homer Parish, a sailor, just a kid, you

might say. A kid who had two iron claws, where he used to have a pair of hands. High tailing it for a home like that, I guess we were all on the jittery side. Only Homer was the one who showed it most.

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