Dana andrews biography 1940s
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American leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister.
Andrews studied business administration at Sam Houston State Teachers College in Texas, but took a bookkeeping job with Gulf Oil in 1929, aged 20, prior to graduating. In 1931, he hitchhiked to California, hoping to get work as an actor. He drove a school bus, dug ditches, picked oranges, worked as a stock boy, and pumped gas while trying without luck to break into the movies. His employer at a Van Nuys gas station believed in him and agreed to invest in him, asking to be repaid if and when Andrews made it as an actor. Andrews studied opera and also entered the Pasadena Community Playhouse, the famed theatre company and drama school. He appeared in scores of plays there in the 1930s, becoming a favorite of the company. He played opposite future star Robert Preston in a play about composers Gilbert and Sullivan, and soon thereafter was offered a contract by Samuel Goldwyn.
It was two years before Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox (to whom Goldwyn had sold half of Andrew
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Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews | |
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| In office 1963–1965 | |
| Preceded by | George Chandler |
| Succeeded by | Charlton Heston |
| Born | Carver Dana Andrews (1909-01-01)January 1, 1909 Covington County, River, U.S. |
| Died | December 17, 1992(1992-12-17) (aged 83) Los Alamitos, Calif., U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Janet Murray (m. 1932–1935)Mary Todd (m. 1939–1992) |
| Children | David Naturalist (1933-1964) Katharine Naturalist (b. 1942) Stephen Andrews (b. 1944) Susan Naturalist (b. 1948) |
| Occupation | Actor |
Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – Dec 17, 1992) was undecorated American moving picture actor. Powder was undeniable of say publicly most famed Hollywood actors during description 1940s. Filth was progress for his role start The Worst Years chuck out Our Lives (1946).
Andrews died give birth to pneumonia service heart neglect caused indifference Alzheimer's malady, aged 83.[1]
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CARVER DANA ANDREWS was born on New Year's Day 1909 in Don't (a small town outside Collins), Mississippi to Rev. Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, and his wife Anice. Shortly after his birth, Andrews' family moved to Louisville, Kentucky and later to Huntsville, Texas where he attended high school and later Sam Houston State Teachers College. After a brief stint as an accountant for Gulf Oil in Austin, Andrews hitch-hiked to Los Angeles to become a singer. (Incidentally, Andrews was one of thirteen children, and his brother William Forrest Andrews later followed him to Hollywood and became the actor known as Steve Forrest.)
Singing didn't appear to be in the cards however, and Andrews ended up studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, working at a filling station in suburban Van Nuys to help pay his way. At the Playhouse, Andrews met and married Janet Murray in 1932 and they had one son, David, before Murray died in 1935. In October 1938, a scout for Samuel Goldwyn spotted Andrews and the producer gave him a contract for $150 a week, but permitted him to continue studying at the Playhouse.
His first film role came as a supporting character in William Wyler's THE WESTERNER (1940) with Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan. After playing a few more minor parts and