Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1944)

PORIRAII 01 A I Painting in words and phrases that colorful guy, Dana Andrews, who HIS sleeping hours are frequently bedevilled by a recurring dream — that he is on the stage, before a huge audience, and cannot remember his lines. He was born in the sleepy little country town of Collins, Mississippi, which was formerly known as Don’t, Miss. — an impersonal admonition he is determined to heed. He drinks three quarts of raw milk every day. He is classified 1-A and may be in the service by the time this is published. He sings an excellent bass baritone, never wears a hat and doesn’t know if he would ever be seasick because he has never been on a boat. His friends dub him “the late Mr. Andrews” due to his penchant for never being on time. He blames this on the fact that he was five days overdue when the stork brought him. He was baptized Carver Dana Andrews. He is superstitious about three lights on a match and has one sister and seven brothers, all living in Texas. He is an avid movie fan and believes that an occasional matrimonial vacation strengthens the marriage tie. He has a special fondness for little green onions. He used to bite his nails but corrected the habit. His father, Charles Forrest Andrews, was a Baptist minister who died in 1940. He is six feet tall, likes marinated BY JOSEPH HENRY STEELE herring and if he were not an actor would have made his living as a landscape designer. He likes hunting quail and deer. He has never been to Europe and has an aversion to short socks. His long socks are always sagging because he won’t wear garters. He is married to Mary Todd of Santa Monica, California. He is a graduate of Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas, and plans someday to learn the tango. He dabbles in amateur photography, specializing in still life and character studies. He seldom eats candy and is nostalgically affected by Lee Sims’ piano recording of “Contrasts And Improvisations.” He was born on New Year’s Day, 1912. He is an excellent swimmer, rates Director Lewis Milestone his best friend and has a son, David, by his first wife who died in 1935. He loathes crowds and his father was Scotch-Irish. He studied eight years for the opera and is a follower of “Li’l Abner” and “Red Ryder.” He likes popcorn, tinkering with tools, and old-fashioned cocktails. He dances a good rhumba, suffers no allergies or phobias and credits his philosophic attitudes to two college teachers — Professors Montgomery and Aydelotte. He was born on his grandfather’s plantation. He likes caviar and worked in 1930 as an accountant with the Gulf Oil Company in Houston, Texas. Dana Andrews has an inordinate weakness for rare roast beef, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the paintings of Van Gogh and if he had life to live over again he would do nothing differently. He doesn’t like cats but never tires of listening to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. He is always showing off his personally trained and perfectly behaved cocker spaniel, which he got out of the city pound. His cigarette and pocket money is budgeted at $10 weekly. He gets very moody at times. LIE HAS had measles and mumps ' and firmly believes that snobbery comes out in people as a “cover-up of their inferiority.” He weighs 168 pounds and is inclined to finish everything he undertakes. He likes sleeping until eleven o’clock Sunday mornings and thinks San Francisco is the most completely beautiful city he has ever been in. He tried desperately to get the role of Father Chisholm in “Keys Of The Kingdom,” which is one of his favorite books. He used to play hooky and go fishing, and has never attempted painting or modeling. He is a Sinatra fan. His father nicknamed him “Hoddy,” an outcome of Dana’s childhood pronunciation ( Cont’d on page 89) Dana and his personally trained cocker spaniel from the city pound . . . The Andrews family, "Pop," Mama Mary and Baby Katherine . . . The Andrews library and its master in a reading mood