Hollywood enigma Dana Andrews / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
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- 出版： Jackson : University Press of Mississippi
- 叢書名： Hollywood legends series
- 主題： Andrews, Dana, 1909-1992. , Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- ISBN： 9781617036484 (electronic bk.) 、 9781604735673 (hbk.) 、 1604735678 (hbk.)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-301) and index. Includes filmography. Introduction -- Don't miss -- The patriarch (1881 1924) -- "Go Hollywood, young man!" (1924-29) -- To be an actor (1929-32) -- "Mediocrity is not my lot" (1932-35) -- Holding on (1935-36) -- Pasadena (1936-38) -- Goldwyn (1938-41) -- Fox (1941-44) -- Laura (1944) -- Stardom (1944-45) -- The best years of our lives (1946) -- The name above the title (1947) -- "What is this thing I do to women?" (1947-50) -- Hollywood fights back (1947-57) -- Period of adjustment (1950-53) -- Home and abroad: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953-57) -- Sobriety (1958-64) -- Ruin and recovery (1964-72) -- Curtain call (1972-92).
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- 系統號： 005104709 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.