BIRTHDAY FOR DIRECTORS OTTO PREMINGER & FRITZ LANG

Birthday for two important directors involving Dana Andrews: Otto Preminger the most important as LAURA made he and Dana famous, followed up by the film noirs FALLEN ANGEL, DAISY KENYON and WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (and years later, the war film IN HARM'S WAY) while in-between Dana worked with Fritz Lang in the 1950's double-noirs WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, each involving crime and punishment.

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MADISON AVENUE (1961)

The third of four movies starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain is the only where Crain plays the sort of "other woman" on the sidelines wherein Dana's MADISON AVENUE mover/shaker is building-up the career of Eleanor Parker. The scenes between Andrews and Crain, though, are the longest and last throughout the entire story.

SEALED CARGO (1951)

Dana Andrews' uncredited brother Steve Forrest plays a Nazi soldier, without lines, about to get a knife in SEALED CARGO... so the brothers never actually share screen-time, but it's the first and only time they're in the same movie.

THE FEARMAKERS (1958)

Another Happy Birthday and Happy New Years both for DANA ANDREWS, born on Jan 1, 1909, a long time ago, but his movies carry on, as his minimalist style of acting seems brand new... here in THE FEARMAKERS (colorized photo) directed by Dana's CURSE OF THE DEMON and CANYON PASSAGE auteur Jacques Tourneur.

FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

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