Dana Andrews : "The Guilt Of Man"
Oct 19, 2022 23:31:07 GMT
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Dana Andrews was born on January 1, 1909 in Don't in Covington County, Mississippi, located just a few miles from Collins; it was New Year's Day. While still a child, he moved with his family to the state of Texas where he later attended Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. His father, Reverend Charles Forrest Andrews, was a strict Baptist minister, so the family was forbidden to do many things. His mother was homemaker Annis Speed. He was one of 13 children and experienced grinding poverty. He was named after Dr. Dana, a teacher in seminary school whom his father knew from Louisville, Kentucky. He became an excellent football player in college, noted for his dominant stiff arm defense when playing on offense.
During the 2nd World War, Andrews was exempt from military service due to rules around family dependents. He made propaganda films and supported the troops while establishing himself as an actor; one of these films was the documentary 'December 7th' (1943) which was co-directed by John Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland. His younger bother, actor Steve Forrest, enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 18 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
'The settlement didn't acquire its unusual name until the early 1890s when cutting of the area's timber became a significant industry for a time. With the influx of workmen and their families moving into the community, George H. Pond built a small mercantile store and applied to the U.S. Post Office Department in Washington, D.C. for a permit to house a post office. As the story goes, Pond, not wanting to send in a name that was already in use, decided to leave it up to Washington to give him a name. On the application where he was to write in the name of the post office, he merely wrote the word "Don't," meaning that he didn't have a name.
On May 23, 1894, the Don't Post Office was established. Soon after, the Rural Free Delivery service was put into effect by the government, and Don't's post office was discontinued on February 15, 1907, and mail was sent to Collins.'
- The Mississippi Free Library
'At his best, Dana Andrews embodied an era, the contemporary audience's concept of a 1940s man. There is an ambiguity to the image, the required mask of a confident male. (He has been cited as a possible prototype for Jon Hamm's Don Draper character in the television hit "Mad Men.") Andrews's eyes are alert, his lips pulled tight, his suit buttoned up, his overall demeanor calm, possibly indifferent, but he nevertheless suggests inner turmoil, reflecting the contained violence of midcentury America.
Carl Rollyson understands the appeal of Andrews and the relevance of his image and explores both in his insightful biography 'Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews' (published in 2012).'
- Hollywood Enigma
'Hit Or Miss' ~ Odetta (legend of Alabama)
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Actor-Director Union : 'Maverick Dozen' (* pictured serving Gregg Toland and William Wyler soda *)
H. Bruce Humberstone [2] : 'Lucky Cisco Kid' (1940) / 'Madison Avenue' (1961)
Allan Dwan [2] : 'Sailor's Lady' (1940) / 'Enchanted Island' (1958)
William Wyler [2] : 'The Westerner' (1940) / 'The Best Years Of Our Lives' (1946)
William A. Wellman [2] : 'The Ox-Bow Incident' (1943) / 'The Iron Curtain' (1948)
Lewis Milestone [4] : 'The North Star' (1943) / 'The Purple Heart' (1944) / 'A Walk In The Sun' (1945) / 'No Minor Vices' (1948)
Otto Preminger [5] : 'Laura' (1944) / 'Fallen Angel' (1946) / 'Daisy Kenyon' (1947) / 'Where The Sidewalk Ends' (1950) / 'In Harm's Way' (1965)
Jacques Tourneur [3] : 'Canyon Passage' (1946) / 'Night Of The Demon' (1957) / 'The Fearmakers' (1958)
Elia Kazan [2] : 'Boomerang' (1947) / 'The Last Tycoon' (1976)
Mark Robson [3] : 'My Foolish Heart' (1949) / 'Edge Of Doom' (1950) / 'I Want You' (1951)
George Sherman [2] : 'Sword In The Desert' (1949) / 'Comanche' (1956)
Alfred L. Werker [2] : 'Sealed Cargo' (1951) / 'Three Hours To Kill' (1954)
Fritz Lang [2] : 'Beyond A Reasonable Doubt' (1956) / 'While The City Sleeps' (1956)
Ida Lupino & Dana Andrews [Lux Radio Theater]
"Martin Scorsese stands out for his commitment to, and knowledge of, film history. So it's appropriate that a director steeped in Italian neo-realism, film noir and other styles would expose his "Shutter Island" cast and crew to films of the past.
"Laura": Scorsese showed this Otto Preminger-directed noir from 1944 to Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, who play federal marshals. "It was the nature of Dana Andrews' behavior, his body language, and then his falling in love with a ghost," Scorsese says of the actor, who plays a police detective investigating a murder. "He doesn't look at anybody -- he's not going to be taken in by any of these witnesses."
- Scott Timberg, The Los Angeles Times
- Scott Timberg, The Los Angeles Times
"Where the Sidewalk Ends marks a specific moment in Otto Premingerâs directorial career. After the overwhelming success of Laura (1944), he made 11 more films before he turned independent with The Moon is Blue (1953). As Peter Bogdanovich points out, Preminger never repeated the commercial success of Laura, yet, in the following nine years, he produced a string of minor successes: Fallen Angel (1945), Daisy Kenyon (1947), Whirlpool (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends and Angel Face (1952). However, these complex and revealing cinematic texts remain significant for the reading and interpretation of his work. An adaptation of William L. Stuartâs novel Night Cry, Sidewalk is an ostensibly simple tale, told with dark and ferocious intensity. In it, Preminger examines the social aftermath of the war against the squalor, corruption and desperation of 1950s America. The film is set in New York, a doleful metropolis of crime and violence; a city with no limits, no values and absolutely no rules, inhabited by a series of disillusioned and insecure loners who are casualties of urban decline and apathy.
As Thomas Elsaesser points out, Preminger belongs to a group of directors influenced by German Expressionism and Max Reinhardt, who developed a new visual culture in the period following the domination of silent film with his theatrical methods of mise en scĂšne. The brooding atmosphere of mysterious nocturnal underworld, enhanced by cinematographer Joseph LaShelle, intensifies a sense of predestination, characteristic of early expressionist dramas and typical for the texture of film noir. In this ambience, bereft of compassion and understanding, in which everyone informs on everyone else and even the omniscient police have something to hide, the dwarfed and marginalised human figure is bound to fight for redemption and survival."
As Thomas Elsaesser points out, Preminger belongs to a group of directors influenced by German Expressionism and Max Reinhardt, who developed a new visual culture in the period following the domination of silent film with his theatrical methods of mise en scĂšne. The brooding atmosphere of mysterious nocturnal underworld, enhanced by cinematographer Joseph LaShelle, intensifies a sense of predestination, characteristic of early expressionist dramas and typical for the texture of film noir. In this ambience, bereft of compassion and understanding, in which everyone informs on everyone else and even the omniscient police have something to hide, the dwarfed and marginalised human figure is bound to fight for redemption and survival."
- Boris Trbic, Senses Of Cinema
'Star of the Month ~ Dana Andrews plays Joan Crawford's caddish lover in DAISY KENYON ('47). She described him as âunderestimated,â saying he âwasnât fully appreciated because his style was to underplay, which is so difficult.â'
- Turner Classic Movies [TCM], Twitter (TCM@tcm _ 3:52 am · 13 Jul 2022)
Susan Andrews interview with Alan K. Rode
{ : WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950) and special guest Susan Andrews opened the 21st annual Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival on October 21, 2021. After the film, Andrews conversed with festival host and producer Alan K. Rode concerning her impressions of the film, growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of star actor Dana Andrews and her fatherâs legacy as one of Hollywoodâs seminal leading actors. : }
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More Key Films Of The 1940s ...
'âSwamp Waterâ (1941) was what did it for Dana Andrews. After a few years in Hollywood bouncing between bit parts, an apprenticeship at the Pasadena Playhouse, and working as a gas station attendant, it took a trip to the Okefenokee to really launch his film career as a leading man.
This is part of the Dana Andrews Blogathon over at Classic Move Man, with links to other blogs posted this Saturday, July 28th.
Dana Andrews knew himself that ''Swamp Water" would be important to his career. In June 1941 he took âa fast cross country airliner,â to Waycross, Georgia to film on location according to the Waycross Journal-Herald of June 25, 1941. ââItâs my big chance,â laughed young Andrews a bit groggy after his first plane trip but fascinated by it all to such a degree he hadnât been able to sleep.â
Thirty-three years later, in his mid-60s, in another phase of his career when performing dinner theatre in âBest of Friendsâ at the Alhambra Theatre, Jacksonville, Florida, Andrews took his wife on a side trip to the Okefenokee. He wanted to show her where he had filmed some scenes for âSwamp Waterâ. He was recognized in a Waycross diner. (Waycross Journal-Herald, February 13, 1974).
Dana Andrews had been the only principal actor to film in the Okefenokee, not counting his hound dog in the film, âTrouble.â According the Journal-Herald, Trouble also arrived on the same plane with Mr. Andrews, ââsick as a dogâ from flying so highâ in these days before jet planes with pressurized cabins.
Director Jean Renoir, in his first American film, and his assistant Irving Pinchel arrived as well, with Mr. Pinchel taking over the location shooting when Renoir went back to Hollywood, where of course most of the film was shot on sets.
Itâs an unusual film, a precursor perhaps to Renoirâs âThe Southernerâ (1945) about Texas sharecroppers, which weâll probably get around to sometime or other. In both, this esteemed French director, with an impressive body of work in French cinema behind him, and who was also the son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, tackles a brooding American landscape. The swamp, with its gothic imagery, is a place of escape and freedom, but also a claustrophobic prison, a place of gruesome death.'
- Another Old Movie Blog
This is part of the Dana Andrews Blogathon over at Classic Move Man, with links to other blogs posted this Saturday, July 28th.
Dana Andrews knew himself that ''Swamp Water" would be important to his career. In June 1941 he took âa fast cross country airliner,â to Waycross, Georgia to film on location according to the Waycross Journal-Herald of June 25, 1941. ââItâs my big chance,â laughed young Andrews a bit groggy after his first plane trip but fascinated by it all to such a degree he hadnât been able to sleep.â
Thirty-three years later, in his mid-60s, in another phase of his career when performing dinner theatre in âBest of Friendsâ at the Alhambra Theatre, Jacksonville, Florida, Andrews took his wife on a side trip to the Okefenokee. He wanted to show her where he had filmed some scenes for âSwamp Waterâ. He was recognized in a Waycross diner. (Waycross Journal-Herald, February 13, 1974).
Dana Andrews had been the only principal actor to film in the Okefenokee, not counting his hound dog in the film, âTrouble.â According the Journal-Herald, Trouble also arrived on the same plane with Mr. Andrews, ââsick as a dogâ from flying so highâ in these days before jet planes with pressurized cabins.
Director Jean Renoir, in his first American film, and his assistant Irving Pinchel arrived as well, with Mr. Pinchel taking over the location shooting when Renoir went back to Hollywood, where of course most of the film was shot on sets.
Itâs an unusual film, a precursor perhaps to Renoirâs âThe Southernerâ (1945) about Texas sharecroppers, which weâll probably get around to sometime or other. In both, this esteemed French director, with an impressive body of work in French cinema behind him, and who was also the son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, tackles a brooding American landscape. The swamp, with its gothic imagery, is a place of escape and freedom, but also a claustrophobic prison, a place of gruesome death.'
- Another Old Movie Blog
'Kit Carson' (1940 - George B. Seitz)
'Tobacco Road' (1941 - John Ford)
'Ball Of Fire' (1941 - Howard Hawks)
'Swamp Water' (1941 - Jean Renoir)
'Berlin Correspondent' (1942 - Eugene Forde)
'Wing And A Prayer : The Story Of Carrier X' (1944 - Henry Hathaway)
'Deep Waters' (1948 - Henry King)
'Night Song' (1948 - John Cromwell)
'The Forbidden Street' (1949 - Jean Negulesco)
Tennessee session group Barefoot Jerry get it on inside the studio ...
Dana Andrews went on to work with innovative directors like George Marshall, William Dieterle, Mervyn LeRoy, Irving Rapper, John Sturges, Tony Richardson, John Brahm, Boris Sagal, Jack Smight, Ted Post and Peter Collinson. In the 1960s and 1970s, he made some films in Italy, including Antonio Margheriti's popular "spaghetti western" 'Take A Hard Ride' (1975).
# Roger Corman optioned a television play called 'The Stake' in the mid-1950s. He planned to film it with Dana Andrews in the lead role but it was never made.
Screenwriter Charles B. Griffith later recalled this about the making of Corman's 'Gunslinger' (1956) : "He (Corman) took me out to see Three Hours to Kill [Alfred L. Werker, 1954] with Dana Andrews and said to me, 'I want you to do the same picture but with a woman as the sheriff'."
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3 Leading Ladies : Gene Tierney [5], Anne Baxter [3] & Jeanne Crain [4]
Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney acted together in Irving Cummings' 'Belle Starr' (1941), John Ford's 'Tobacco Road' (1941) and William Wellman's 'The Iron Curtain' (1948). Also, two films directed by Otto Preminger, 'Laura' (1944) and 'Where The Sidewalk Ends' (1950).
Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter acted together in Archie Mayo's 'Crash Dive' (1943) which featured groundbreaking special effects work. Also, Jean Renoir's 'Swamp Water' (1941) and Lewis Milestone's 'The North Star' (1943).
Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain acted together in Walter Lang's 'State Fair' (1945), George Marshall's 'Duel In The Jungle' (1954), H. Bruce Humberstone's 'Madison Avenue' (1961) and John Brahm's 'Hot Rods To Hell' (1967).
'The Underrated Vulnerability Of Dana Andrews' | 10 Essential Films [Cine Gratia Cinema]
{ : 00:00 Introduction / 01:36 Personal Connection and the Overlooked Complexity of His Performances / 03:36 Dana Andrews and His Forte / 06:00 Dana Andrews Essential Films : }
{ : 00:00 Introduction / 01:36 Personal Connection and the Overlooked Complexity of His Performances / 03:36 Dana Andrews and His Forte / 06:00 Dana Andrews Essential Films : }
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Film Noir History : Tough Guy Hall Of Fame
1st Ballot Inductees
Edward G. Robinson (December 12, 1893, Bucharest, Kingdom Of Romania)
Humphrey Bogart (born December 25, 1899, New York City, New York, U.S.)
Brian Donlevy (born February 9, 1901, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.)
Elisha Cook Jr. (born December 26, 1903, San Francisco, California, U.S.)
Peter Lorre (born June 26, 1904, RĂłzsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now RuĆŸomberok, Slovakia])
Dick Powell (November 14, 1904, Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S.)
Steve Brodie (born November 21, 1919, El Dorado, Kansas, U.S.)
Tony Curtis ~ Street Kid (born June 3, 1925, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.)
25 Inductees
Dan Duryea (born January 23, 1907, White Plains, New York, U.S)
Dennis O'Keefe (born March 29, 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, U.S.)
Van Heflin (born December 13, 1908, Walters, Oklahoma, U.S.)
Dana Andrews (born January 1, 1909, Near Collins, Mississippi, U.S.)
Robert Ryan (born November 11, 1909, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.)
Dana Andrews (born January 1, 1909, Near Collins, Mississippi, U.S.)
Robert Ryan (born November 11, 1909, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.)
Richard Conte (born March 24, 1910, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.)
Vincent Price (born May 27, 1911, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.)
Robert Taylor (born August 5, 1911, Filley, Nebraska, U.S.)
Cornel Wilde (born October 13, 1912, Privigye, Kingdom Of Hungary [now Prievidza, Slovakia])
John Garfield (born March 4, 1913, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, U.S.)
Alan Ladd (born September 3, 1913, Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.)
Burt Lancaster (born November 2, 1913, Manhattan, New York, U.S.)
Burt Lancaster (born November 2, 1913, Manhattan, New York, U.S.)
Howard Duff (born November 24, 1913, Charleston, Washington, U.S.)
Wendell Corey (born March 20, 1914, Dracut, Massachusetts, U.S.)
Charles McGraw (born May 10, 1914, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.)
Richard Basehart (born August 31, 1914, Zanesville, Ohio, U.S.)
Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914, Sunrise Township, Minnesota, U.S.)
Edmond O'Brien (born September 10, 1915, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.)
Sterling Hayden (born March 26, 1916, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.)
Glenn Ford (born May 1, 1916, Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada)
Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S.)
Raymond Burr (May 21, 1917, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada)
Robert Mitchum (born August 6, 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.)
William Holden (born April 17, 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.)
William Holden (born April 17, 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.)
Lawrence Tierney (born March 15, 1919, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.)
'Best Classic Film Noir Breakthrough Performances' | 10 Essential Films [Cine Gratia Cinema]
{ : 0:00 Introduction / 01:58 Young Discoveries / 06:07 Atomic Performances / 10:08 First Time Is a Charm / 14:40 Seasoned Actors : }
For my money this was Susan Hayward's finest hour - lovely theme tune was a hit too. For a long time (possibly still) the only of JD Salinger's work -" Uncly wiggly in Connecticut"= to be filmed - Salinger hated it I believe. 
