Dana Andrews

Carver Dana Andrews was an American movie actor. He was one of Hollywood's famous stars of the 1940s and remained acting, though usually in small prestigious roles, in the 1980s. One of his best-popular characters and the one for which he got the most applause was as war ex-soldier Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives in the year 1946. He was born as Carver Dana Andrews on a farmstead external Collins, Covington County, the third of thirteen sons of Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist pastor, and his wife, Annis. The family finally moved to Texas, and that city was the birthplace of his newborn siblings, including future Hollywood star Steve Forrest.

Dana Andrews went to college at Sam Houston State University and also examined business organisation in Houston, Texas. In 1931, he moved to Los Angeles, seeking moments as a singer. He served at various jobs, including tapping gas in Van Nuys. To better Andrews study song at night, a week for full-time research, in a swap over for a five-year share of potential later earnings. Andrews signed an agreement with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after landing in Los Angeles was awarded his first film role in The Westerner featuring Gary Cooper. He was also famous as the criminal in the 1941 drama Ball of Fire, again drawing with Gary Cooper.

In the 1943 movie conversion of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often called as one of his best movies, he performed a lynching prey. His trademark roles began as a troubled detective in Laura alongside Gene Tierney and as a U.S. Cavalry Air Force deputy returning from the war in the Oscar- getting 1946 movie The Best Years of Our Lives. Both movies became masterpieces. In 1945, he worked with Jeanne Crain in the talented State Fair. In 1947, he was chosen the 23rd most successful star in the U.S.

From 1952 to 1954, Andrews led in the radio series I Was a Socialist for the FBI about the struggles of Matt Cvetic, an FBI snitch who infiltrated the Communist Party. In 1963, he was chosen the chairman of the Screen Actors Society. Andrews later performed in a leading role as university president Tom Boswell in Bright Promise from its opening in 1969, until 1971. In 1960 he along with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. featured in The Crowded Sky. Andrews and Zimbalist resembled in Airport 1975, Andrews performing a businessman director who has a heart arrest and crashes his aircraft into a 747 that Zimbalist is operating.

Andrews mated Janet Murray on New Year's Eve, of 1932. Their son David was a performer and composer who died from a cerebral injury. Janet Andrews passed off in 1935 of pneumonia. In 1939, he married actress Mary Todd, by her, he had three kids, Stephen, Katharine, and Susan. Andrews ultimately brought his addiction under control and managed actively with the National Council on Drug Dependence and Alcoholism. In 1972, he was seen in a television public assistance advertisement on the head. He gave his final years existing at the John Douglas French Club for Alzheimer's Syndrome in California.

In the last years of his time, Andrews submitted from Alzheimer's disease. In 1992, two weeks earlier his 84th birthday, he died of congestive heart collapse and pneumonia.