Dana Andrews News

Late this evening it was time for our annual New Year's Eve tradition: watching a hokey disaster movie.

Spending New Year's with Nick and Nora Charles is hard to beat. ...I'm especially looking forward to Fox's THE NORTH STAR , with Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter, which is being shown as part of the month-long "Shadows of Russia" series .

Det. Lt. Mark McPherson checks his PDA while interrogating Waldo Lydecker about the murder of Laura Hunt .

Every Hollywood studio had its distinctive style, partly brought about by artists it had under contract.

From a longtime e-friend: You may not remember a wonderfully entertaining 1960s disaster flick called Crack In The World, starring Dana Andrews as a scientist who sets off an A-bomb in the earth's crust to release geothermal energy.

Film Noir Classic from 1944, Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb, Untangle This Murder Mystery by Midnight Review by Thumper: Thumps from 1 to 5: Thump of 4.5 This film "Laura" was released in 1944, and is a classic example of a film noir.

After being kicked off a bus for travelling beyond his stop, failed press angent Eric Stanton wanders into the small town of Walton in California and immediately makes an impression on the local waitress Stella .

Murder, ghostly apparitions and creepy goings-on are the themes of this month's movie selections at the Burroughs-Saden Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library.

Dana Andrews, the most famous movie star to hail from Huntsville, Texas, was born 100 years ago, in 1909.

The Political Science Junior Fellows and Friends of the Wynne will host a Dana Andrews Film Festival at the Wynne Home Arts Center on Sept.

MARTY McFly, Deanna Durbin and three doses of Tarantino, in the film guide that's investigating its own death.

CRASH DRIVE is a grand World War II film starring Tyrone Power, U.S.M.C.R. The film costars Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter, but this is the charismatic Power's movie all the way -- his last starring role before leaving Hollywood for real-life wartime service.

Nevertheless both are worthy in their own right -- dark crime thrillers that slide in and out of genre boundaries, but effectively create an identity of their own.

Elsewhere here in DO you can read about this weekend's exciting premiere of Miriam Center's play "Johnny & Me!", and there are other chances this weekend for those in need of a Mercer fix.