Happy Birthday: Dana Andrews (1909–1992)

Dana Andrews (1909–1992)

Born: January 1, 1909 in Covington County, Mississippi, USA
Died: December 17, 1992 (age 83) in Los Alamitos, California, USA

[after having received “permission” from Samuel Goldwyn to get married] About a week before the wedding was planned I got a call from the casting director: “Let your hair and your beard grow. You’re going to be in a western”. So in the society column of the Santa Monica paper there was a picture of the two of us, me with this beard, and it said, “Mr. Andrews is an actor. Note the beard.”

Laura 1944 dir. Otto Preminger Starring Gene Tierney Andrews The Best Years of our Lives 1946 dir. William Wyler Starring Myrna Loy Fredric Marsh

Boomerang 1947 dir. Elia Kazan starring Andrews Lee J. Cobb Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 dir. Preminger starring Andrews Gene Tierney Airport 1975 1975 dir. Jack Smight Cast Charlton…