"Diary of a Sergeant," a 1945 U.S. Signal Corps documentary short about Harold Russell, a paratroop sergeant who lost his hands in a World War II demolition accident. (In the film, Alfred Drake supplies the voice of Russell.) It was this film that inspired William Wyler to cast Russell in a starring role in The Best Years of Our Lives, appearing opposite Dana Andrews and Fredric March: (This is the latest in a se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM on May 6, 2020