Oral history interview with Dana Andrews, 1958

Biographical Note

Actor; full name is Carver Dana Andrews

Scope and Contents

Early life, arrival in Hollywood; Pasadena Playhouse School of the Theatre; relationship with Sam Goldwyn and 20th Century Fox; making of LAURA and THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES; star system; impressions of Otto Preminger, William Wyler, William Wellman, Louis Milestone. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Andrews, Dana, 1909-1992--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pasadena Playhouse.
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.