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    1940      KIT CARSON

    1940      LUCKY CISCO KID

    1940      SAILOR'S LADY

    1940      THE WESTERNER

    1941      BALL OF FIRE

    1941      BELLE STARR

    1941      SWAMP vatten

    1941      TOBACCO ROAD

    1942      BERLIN CORRESPONDENT

    1943      CRASH DIVE

    1943      THE NORTH STAR

    1943      THE OX-BOW INCIDENT

    1944      LAURA

    1944      THE PURPLE HEART

    1944      UP IN ARMS

    1944      WING AND A PRAYER

    1945      FALLEN ANGEL

    1945      STATE FAIR

    1945      A WALK IN THE SUN

    1946     &n

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    Dana Andrews

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    Andrews began his career playing a variety of supporting roles -- from a gangster in Howard Hawks' comedy BALL OF FIRE (1941), to a falsely accused cattle thief facing a lynch mob in William Wellman's THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943).   Although independent producer Samuel Goldwyn originally signed Andrews to a long-term contract in the late 1930s, Goldwyn was unable to keep Andrews sufficiently busy with his own studio's output and eventually sold half of Andrews' contract to 20th Century-Fox where he would eventually make the majority (if not always the best) of his films of the 1940s.

    One of Andrews' first opportunities to play the leading man came in Otto Preminger's film noir masterpiece LAURA (1944), co-starring Gene Tierney. Andrews plays Mark McPherson, a detective trying to solve what he believes is the murder of a be

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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

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