FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Virginia Gilmore, credited before Dana Andrews in the World War II thriller BERLIN CORRESPONDENT, played his spurned girlfriend in SWAMP WATER the year before: ironically she's good here despite working for Nazis, and bad there as an All-American Girl.

Second entry of Doris Fesette, the blonde who Dana Andrews buys a drink for at the Filibuster Bar in MADISON AVENUE. 

Peter Whitney, the shady bartender from THE BIG HEAT, was also an eclectic Dana Andrews actor, playing a clumsy banker in CANYON PASSAGE and then a formidable guard in THE IRON CURTAIN, motioning for Dana to turn around... how demeaning!

As mentioned in the Cult Film Freak review , Dana Andrews's performance in WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS is breezy, on cruise-control, making his best scenes with lawmen Howard Duff since Dana, as a classy award winning newscaster, can partake in some of his most natural kind of roles: of the hard-boiled investigatory nature.

In both THE CROWDED SKY and before that, WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, Rhonda Fleming plays a cheating wife, but not of Dana Andrews: In both, she and Dana never share a single scene, and yet they're first and second in the credits: And here she is in the latter, warming up to Dana's LAURA foe, Vincent Price.

The famous portrait from LAURA of Gene Tierney's title character that Dana Andrews initially thinks is "not bad" to Clifton Webb's snooty chagrin: particularly protesting the word "dame" for Laura, to whom he provided a personal Pygmalion transition.