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Post by timshelboy on Oct 20, 2022 19:27:25 GMT
double bubble - smiling with his shirt off!  |
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 20, 2022 19:39:11 GMT
Dana was a nearly lifetime alcoholic but did recover later in life -- and spent the remainder of his life working with and helping fellow recovering alcoholics.
Met him once at a conference day celebrating his career organized by my neighbor Max Showalter (he played the deaf farmer cured by Jean Simmons in ELMER GANTRY, plus many other character roles in the 50s and 60s).
Max got him to entertain us with his excellent operatic trained singing voice that he never got the chance to display on screen -- not even in STATE FAIR (though I do think he does sing with the other Russian peasants in the music number in THE NORTH STAR).
Fredric March got the Oscar for BEST YEARS, but I thought Dana was even better -- but did not receive a nomination for it.
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Post by timshelboy on Oct 20, 2022 20:38:25 GMT
Dana was a nearly lifetime alcoholic but did recover later in life -- and spent the remainder of his life working with and helping fellow recovering alcoholics. Met him once at a conference day celebrating his career organized by my neighbor Max Schowalter (he played the deaf farmer cured by Jean Simmons in ELMER GANTRY, plus many other character roles in the 50s and 60s). Max got him to entertain us with his excellent operatic trained singing voice that he never got the chance to display on screen -- not even in STATE FAIR (though I do think he does sing with the other Russian peasants in the music number in THE NORTH STAR). Fredric March got the Oscar for BEST YEARS, but I thought Dana was even better -- but did not receive a nomination for it. He was terrific in his Casey Adams days as Jean Peters' hubbie in NIAGARA - Mr & Mrs squaresville compared to the Loomis' twisted coupling 
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 1:01:07 GMT
My top 15 Dana Andrews movies - for me he is King of Noir - Sterling Hayden his only serious competition chronologically  Is your avatar from BELLE STARR?
My avatar is from 'Swamp Water' but it's severly cropped for the avatar size. If you extend the still you might see him reacting to Virginia Gilmore (or vice versa). They also worked together in the interesting wartime propaganda picture 'Berlin Correspondent' which I saw and enjoyed for the first time thanks to the youtube.
Well, the leading film noir actor usually goes to either Humphrey Bogart, or maybe Robert Mitchum, if I'm not mistaken. Yet Dana Andrews has both his movies with Fritz Lang, four of his five movies with Otto Preminger, one of them with Elia Kazan, as is the case with Mark Robson .... so I do rank him among the first rank of noir actors personally. That's eight great films from four great directors to begin with.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2022 1:12:41 GMT
He looks like Steve Martin in that picture !
It's funny you say that as some reviewers of Carl Reiner's film noir parody 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' (1982) have noted a resemblance. A great believer in study, Martin was in his element imitating Alan Ladd in some scenes, who was from Arkansas.
Steve Martin's from Waco, Texas. Dana Andrews was from Mississippi but he was schooled in Texas (and his daughter has confirmed in interviews that she believes he might have dropped his Mississipian-Texan accent down a little for work purposes).
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Post by politicidal on Jan 7, 2023 19:35:23 GMT
I'd probably rank my favorite films featuring him as the following:
Laura
While the City Sleeps
Three Hours to Kill
Night of the Demon
Sword in the Desert
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 7, 2023 20:01:26 GMT
I heard he was president of the Screen Actors Guild at the time when nudity was being allowed in movies and he supported actress refusals to be compelled to do it for a movie.
I watch Night of the Demon every October.
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