FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

Birthday of Golden Age singer and actress ALICE FAYE, the good girl in Otto Preminger's underrated film noir FALLEN ANGEL with Dana Andrews... and since Linda Darnell's femme fatale character got so much attention while some of Alice's scenes were cut... in Hollywood, Alice didn't live there anymore... until a 1960's TV-version of STATE FAIR, which Dana starred in the best known theatrical released the same year as this movie, 1945.

By 1954, while struggling with alcoholism, Dana Andrews was back to playing the secondary male lead, who almost gets the girl but ultimately doesn't, here in ELEPHANT WALK opposite Elizabeth Taylor, wife of aloof multi-millionaire tea-plantation owner Peter Finch, in what's a cross between Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA and, ironically, Taylor's following year epic GIANT.