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Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (Hollywood Legends Series)
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9781604735673
- Book Title
- Hollywood Enigma : Dana Andrews
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 23.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 350 Pages
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Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and most important of all, Gene Tierney, with whom he did five films. Retrospectives of his work often elicit high praise for an underrated actor, a master of the minimalist style. His image personified the "male mask" of the 1940s in classic films such as Laura, Fallen Angel , and Where the Sidewalk Ends , in which he played the "masculine ideal of steely impassivity." No comprehensive discussion of film noir can neglect his performances. He was an "actor's actor." Here at last is the complete story of a great actor, his difficult struggle to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the love of family and friends that never deserted him. Based on diaries, letters, home movies, and other documents, this biography explores the mystery of a poor boy from Texas who made his Hollywood dream come true even as he sought a life apart from the limelight and the backbiting of contemporaries jockeying for prizes and prestige. Called "one of nature's noblemen" by his fellow actor Norman Lloyd, Dana Andrews emerges from Hollywood Enigma as an admirable American success story, fighting his inner demons and ultimately winning.
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University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-10
1604735678
ISBN-13
9781604735673
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116852225
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hollywood Enigma : Dana Andrews
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
350 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
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Pn2287.A615r86 2012
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Nothing else written about Andrews over the years pulls together so many sources of information so skillfully, making this likely the definitive biography of the man for all time., From the gritty small towns of olden Texas to California in the Great Depression to the movie factories of World War II, Hollywood Enigma chronicles the extraordinary struggle of an unlikely dreamer and reveals a unique side of one actor's journey. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.--or Samuel Goldwyn--but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star., Hollywood Enigma teaches us to appreciate an actor whose standing in the Hollywood pantheon should clearly be reassessed. As Mr. Rollyson clearly understands, Dana Andrews has nowhere to go but up., The life of actor Dana Andrews (1909-1992)--a brilliant, woefully underrated Hollywood star--is at last given major treatment in this meticulous, haunting biography. Carl Rollyson has had unrestricted access to the Andrews family; to journals, letters, and private archives; to exclusive interviews; and to studio records. The result is the landmark chronicle of a highly gifted, deeply tortured but enormously likable man. Rollyson never flinches: the years of Andrews's struggle with alcoholism and of professional decline are detailed here--but so are the many admirable achievements and the heroic triumph over addiction, mostly because of his faithful devotion to his wife and children. With countless others, I have always admired Dana Andrews; now, Carl Rollyson has shown, in this scholarly and immensely readable book, why our admiration is not misplaced.
Copyright Date
2012
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2011-052332
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Hollywood Legends Ser.
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Yes
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