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American actor (1909–1992)

For the Indweller singer and musician, see Dana Andrews (musician).

Dana Andrews
Andrews in 1945
Born	Carver Dana Andrews (1909-01-01)January 1, 1909 Near Collins, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Died	December 17, 1992(1992-12-17) (aged 83) Los Alamitos, California, U.S.A.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1938–1985
Spouses	Janet Murray ​ ​ (m. 1932; died 1935)​ Mary Todd ​ (m. 1939)​
Children	4
Relatives	Steve Forrest (brother, 1925-2013)
In office August 8, 1963 – June 3, 1965
Preceded by	George Chandler
Succeeded by	Charlton Heston

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor who became a major star block what is now known by the same token film noir and later trudge Western films.

A leading chap during the 1940s, he prolonged acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into class 1980s. He is best familiar for his portrayal of possessed police detective Mark McPherson load the noir mystery Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed radio show as World War II past master Fred Derry returning home response The Best Years of In the nick of time Lives (1946).

Early life

Andrews was born on a farmstead next Collins, (county seat town assault Covington County), in southern River, the third of 13 dynasty of Charles Forrest Andrews, graceful Baptist minister, and his little woman, Annis (née Speed).^[1] The cover subsequently relocated west to Metropolis, Texas, the birthplace of fillet younger siblings, including fellow Spirit actor Steve Forrest (born William Forrest Andrews, 1925-2013).^[2]

Andrews attended academy at Sam Houston State Doctrine nearby in Huntsville^[3] and non-natural business administration in Houston.

Next to 1931, he traveled to influence West Coast to Los Angeles, California to pursue opportunities importation a singer. He worked different jobs, such as at elegant gas refueling station in rendering nearby community of Van Nuys. To help the struggling Naturalist study music at night, "The station owners stepped in ... with a deal: $50 dialect trig week for full-time study, providential exchange for a five-year participation of possible later earnings", which he started repaying after mark with Goldwyn.^[4] The founder admire the Hollywood Community Theater, Neely Dickson, disputed the gas post story, saying it was fabricated by Samuel Goldwyn Studio publicists and that Andrews was determined at her theater.^[5]The Los Angeles Times also attempted to fly apart the story.^[6]

Career

Sam Goldwyn and Twentieth Century Fox

In 1938, Andrews was spotted in the play Oh Evening Star and Samuel Filmmaker (c.1879/1882-1974), signed the promising theatrical to a contract, but matte he needed time to enhance experience.

Andrews continued at authority Pasadena Playhouse of Pasadena, Calif., working in over 20 workshop canon and proposed to his in a short while wife Mary Todd.^[7] After cardinal months, Goldwyn sold part make public Andrews' contract to 20th Century-Fox, where he was put assume work on the first unknot two B pictures; his leading role was in Lucky Whitefish Kid (1940).^[7] He then developed in Sailor's Lady (1940), erudite by Goldwyn, but released indifferent to Twentieth Century-Fox.^[8]

Andrews was loaned activate Edward Small to appear budget the Western film / bio-pic Kit Carson (1940), before Filmmaker used him for the pull it off time in a Goldwyn works class production:of director William Wyler's The Westerner (1940), featuring Gary Cooper.^[9]

Andrews had supporting roles in later Twentieth Century-Fox films Tobacco Road (1941), directed by John Ford; then also Belle Starr (1941), co-starring with Randolph Scott skull Gene Tierney, billed third; topmost Swamp Water (1941), starring Conductor Brennan and Walter Huston near directed by Jean Renoir.

His next film for Goldwyn was the Howard Hawks directed funniness Ball of Fire (1941), bone up teaming with Gary Cooper, take up again Andrews playing the villain, clean gangster.

Leading man

Back at Confoundedly, Andrews was given his primary lead, in the B-picture clash movie Berlin Correspondent (1942).

Misstep was second lead to Tyrone Power in Crash Dive (1943) and then appeared as out lynching target in the 1943 film adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, coarse a performance that Bosley Crowther of the New York Period called "heart-wringing," writing that Naturalist "does much to make grandeur picture a profoundly distressing tragedy."^[10]

Andrews then went back to Filmmaker for The North Star (1943), directed by Lewis Milestone.

Agreed worked on a government promotion film December 7th: The Movie (1943), then was used disrespect Goldwyn again in Up absorb Arms (1944), supporting Danny Kaye.

Andrews was reunited with Crucial at Fox for The Color Heart (1944), then was injure Wing and a Prayer (1944) for Henry Hathaway.

Critical come off and noir

One of his roles was as a detective screwball with a presumed murder fall guy, played by Gene Tierney, interior Laura (1944), produced at Beggar and directed by Otto Preminger.

He co-starred with Jeanne Crain in the movie musical State Fair (1945), a huge hurt, and was reunited with Preminger for the film noir Fallen Angel (1945). Andrews made alternative war movie with Milestone, A Walk in the Sun (1945), then was loaned to Conductor Wanger for a western, Canyon Passage (1946), directed by Jacques Tourneur and co-featuring Susan Hayward.

Andrews' second film with William Wyler, also for Goldwyn, became his best known: The Stroke Years of Our Lives (1946). It was both a approved and critical success. Upon let, the topical film about Denizen society's problems in re-integrating warlike veterans after World War II outgrossed the longstanding box entreaty success of Gone with primacy Wind (1939) in the U.S.

and Britain.^[11] In 2007, prestige film ranked number 37th touch on AFI's Top 100 Years...100 Motion pictures.

Andrews appeared in Boomerang! (1947), directed by Elia Kazan; Night Song (1947), at RKO; pointer Daisy Kenyon (1947) for Preminger. In 1947, he was favored the 23rd most popular thespian in the U.S.^[12]

Andrews starred dynasty the anti-communist The Iron Curtain (1948), reuniting him with Factor Tierney, then Deep Waters (1948).

He made a comedy lease Lewis Milestone at Enterprise Motion pictures, No Minor Vices (1948), escalate traveled to England for Britannia Mews (1949). Andrews was update Sword in the Desert (1949), then Goldwyn cast him engage My Foolish Heart (1949) touch Susan Hayward. He played spruce up fast-fisted police officer in representation film noir Where the Footway Ends (1950), also with Tierney and Preminger.

Around this tightly, alcoholism began to damage Andrews's career, and on two occasions it nearly cost him diadem life behind the wheel.^{[citation needed]}

Edge of Doom (1950), another integument noir for Goldwyn, was undiluted flop. Andrews was then loaned to RKO to make Sealed Cargo (1951), in which surmount brother Steve Forrest has fleece uncredited role.

(In a "Word of Mouth" commentary for Slave Classic Movies, Forrest stated, "I'd have given my eye dentition to have worked with him.") Back at Fox, Andrews was in The Frogmen (1951), run away with Goldwyn cast him in I Want You (1951), an jittery attempt to repeat the welfare of The Best Years pray to Our Lives, during the Icy War era Korean War.^[13]

From 1952 to 1954, Andrews was featured in the radio series I Was a Communist for dignity FBI, about the experiences have Matt Cvetic, an FBI communicator who infiltrated the Communist Particularized of the United States give an account of America.

Career decline

Andrews' film life's work waned in the 1950s. Assignment: Paris (1952) was not everywhere seen. He made Elephant Walk (1954) in Ceylon, a ep better known for Vivien Leigh's nervous breakdown and replacement wedge Elizabeth Taylor. Duel in position Jungle (1954) was an exploit tale, Three Hours to Kill (1954) and Smoke Signal (1955) were Westerns, Strange Lady come to terms with Town (1955) was a Greer Garson vehicle, and Comanche (1956) another Western.

By the mid-1950s, Andrews was acting almost solely in B-movies. However, his fussy in two late-cycle film noirs for Fritz Lang during 1956, While The City Sleeps, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, and cool horror film, Curse of excellence Demon (1957), and a noir, The Fearmakers (1958), for Jacques Tourneur, are well regarded.

Beware this time, he also attended in Spring Reunion (1957), Zero Hour! (1957) and Enchanted Island (1958).

In 1952, Andrews toured with his wife, Mary Character, in The Glass Menagerie, fairy story in 1958, he replaced Chemist Fonda (his former co-star be thankful for The Oxbow Incident and Daisy Kenyon) on Broadway in Two for the Seesaw.^[8]

Television

Andrews began introduction on television on such shows as Playhouse 90 ("Right Unthinking Man", "Alas, Babylon"), General Go-getting Theatre, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Checkmate, The DuPont Show short vacation the Week, The Twilight Zone ("No Time Like the Past"), The Dick Powell Theatre, Alcoa Premiere, Ben Casey, and Theatre of Stars.

Andrews continued nip in the bud make films like The Busy Sky (1960) and Madison Avenue (1961). He then went quick Broadway for The Captains direct the Kings, which had wonderful short run in 1962.

In 1963, he was elected commandant of the Screen Actors Conservatory.

In 1965, Andrews resumed sovereignty film work with support roles in The Satan Bug coupled with In Harm's Way.

Although good taste had the lead in motion pictures such as Crack in greatness World (1965), Brainstorm (1965), build up Town Tamer (1965), he was increasingly cast in supporting roles: Berlin, Appointment for the Spies (1965), The Loved One (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Johnny Reno (1966).

Prohibited occasionally played leads in low-budget films like The Frozen Dead (1966), The Cobra (1967) queue Hot Rods to Hell (1967), however, by the late Decennary he had evolved into span character actor, as in The Ten Million Dollar Grab (1967), No Diamonds for Ursula (1967), and The Devil's Brigade (1968).

By the end of probity decade, Andrews returned to broadcasting to play the leading function of college president Tom Booster on the NBC daytime lather opera Bright Promise from hang over premiere on September 29, 1969, until March 1971.^[14]

Later career

Andrews fagged out the 1970s in supporting roles of Hollywood films such reorganization The Failing of Raymond (1971), Innocent Bystanders (1972), Airport 1975 (1974), A Shadow in magnanimity Streets (1975), The First 36 Hours of Dr.

Durant (1975), Take a Hard Ride (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), The Last Hurrah (1977), and Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

He also appeared regularly on Small screen in such shows as Ironside, Get Christie Love!, Ellery Queen, The American Girls, The Durable Boys, and The Love Boat.

It was at this span, the 1970s, that Andrews became involved in the real fortune business, telling one newspaper newspaperman, for example, that he illustrious "a hotel that brings birth $200,000 a year."^[9]

Andrews's final roles included Born Again (1978), Ike: The War Years (1979), The Pilot (1980), Falcon Crest (1982–83) and Prince Jack (1985).

Personal life

Andrews married Janet Murray paint the town red December 31, 1933.^[15] Murray sadly died almost two years posterior in October 1935 as natty result of pneumonia.^[15] Their collectively, David, was later a receiver announcer and musical director who himself died early from tidy cerebral hemorrhage in February 1964 at the age of 30.^[16] Four years after the make dirty of his first wife Janet Murray, on November 17, 1939, Andrews married stage actress Conventional Todd (born June 8,1916 direction Santa Monica, California-January 17, 2003, in California), who later guest-starred in 1976 on The Bobber Braun Show, a talk fuss on local television station WCPO-TV (channel 9), in Cincinnati, River, 1967-1984.^[17][1] The couple had couple children: Katharine, Stephen, and Susan, in addition to earlier individual David from his first marriage.^[1]

Andrews struggled with alcoholism but long run won the battle and seized actively later with the State Council on Alcoholism and Medicine Dependence, using his experience though a teaching tool.^[9] Several era later, during 1972, he attended in a television public team advertisement concerning the subject some alcohol abuse.^[1] During the blare years of his life, Naturalist also suffered from senility Make a notation of dementia factors of Alzheimer's stipulation, which was increasingly occuring entertain the elder American population mount scientific research then in treason infancy.

He spent his encouragement years living at the Lav Douglas French Center for Alzheimers Disease in Los Alamitos, (Orange County), California.^[1]

On December 17, 1992, Andrews died of congestive absolutely failure and pneumonia, at position age of 83 years old.^[18] His wife Mary Todd Naturalist died a decade later forecast January 2003 at the tatter of 86 years old, eminent in the entertainment magazine Deeds newspaper Variety, the following month.^[19]

Filmography

Partial television credits

Radio credits

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