FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Not a movie more aesthetically prickly and scratchy and woody and reedy than SWAMP WATER directed by Jean Renoir, his first American film, and with Dana Andrews fourth billed, he's the true lead as Tom Regan, who finds a friendly, falsely-accused renegade while searching for his dog, Trouble, who lives up to his name.

Marilee Earle discusses an 11th hour plan in THE FEARMAKERS, a Washington D.C. set Film Noir sparsely directed Dana Andrews's collaborator Jacques Tourneur. And this is our first post with Marilee, a personal favorite Dana dame. That face! 

Three-time Dana Andrews' dame, only this time she's not his daughter (SATAN BUG) or his stewardess (THE CROWDED SKY) but his wife... but not an adoring one, in BRAINSTORM.

Dana Andrews and a smitten Dianne Foster discuss his having been away after the town attempted a lynching for a murder he didn't commit, and now he's got THREE HOURS TO KILL. And Foster, not on the list, wants him to run off again... but not alone.

At the STATE FAIR, two girls pass Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain, and one, played by Jo-Carroll Dennison, had recognized the handsome reporter, "How you doing, honey?" she says, and he, while eating a candy apple with Crain, replies, " Quiet , you."

One of the hottest Dana Andrews Cinema dames, Janette Scott, looking on before her husband pushes the button... with inevitable CRACK IN THE WORLD results. And in real life, this princess would not only kiss, but would marry a frog .

Jeanne Crain at her youngest and absolute loveliest in STATE FAIR, rounding out a Valentine's Day weekend of this underrated cinema couple in their most well-known collaboration. 

After the rollercoaster, Dana Andrews explains to Jeanne Crain about why a big city newspaperman needs to write about housewives with gorgeous daughters. Which is already pretty obvious!

Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain ride a rollercoaster in STATE FAIR, their first (and most well-known) of four collaborations that ends with HOT RODS TO HELL . 

In the disaster film CRACK IN THE WORLD, British beauty Janette Scott is stuck between chief scientist husband Dana Andrews and her DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS co-star Kieron Moore.

"We also have Chopin in Paris," Elizabeth Taylor tells Dana Andrews in ELEPHANT WALK, bearing many similarities to GIANT two-years later: A down-to-earth girl marries a prideful and stubborn millionaire (Peter Finch) already married to his land that's made him a fortune. So Dana's the original James Dean. And back to how he started: The secondary male lead i.e. the guy who doesn't get the girl. Which isn't for a lack of trying. And in this case, deserving.

Here's a better Valentine's Day post, and anyone from Long Beach, California would know this location used in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES with Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright.

On this Valentine's Day we pay tribute to four-time cinema couple Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain, obviously loving each other here in HOT RODS TO HELL.

Before being captured and tortured by Korean communists in THE FEARMAKERS it was Hungarian communists in the news media espionage thriller, ASSIGNMENT PARIS.

From DUEL IN THE JUNGLE, this one with Dana Andrews as a dapper New York insurance adjuster adjusting to an England to Africa safari adventure... while courting a rich man's wife ...

Dana Andrews in CRACK IN THE WORLD, going over footage of the titular earthquake he himself caused. It's a cool photo just seeing the veteran actor looking into a movie camera lens after so many years of being captured inside of it.

Vincent Price pays the price of police brutality in LAURA: And the audience is behind Dana Andrews, about to let us in on who killed LAURA... or, you know, that other woman... And the following year, Vincent Price would love Gene Tierney again in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN co-starring Dana's beautiful multi-collaborator, Jeanne Crain with Cornel Wilde in his place...