Carl Rollyson is professor of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is the author of more than thirty books, including biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag. He is the advisory editor of the Hollywood Legends series.
From the gritty small towns of olden Texas to California in the
Great Depression to the movie factories of World War II, Hollywood
Enigma chronicles the extraordinary struggle of an unlikely dreamer
and reveals a unique side of one actor's journey. The fierce
ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might
well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.--or Samuel
Goldwyn--but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl
Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie
star.--Marion Meade, author of The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A
Biography and Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West
and Eileen McKenney
Hollywood Enigma teaches us to appreciate an actor whose standing
in the Hollywood pantheon should clearly be reassessed. As Mr.
Rollyson clearly understands, Dana Andrews has nowhere to go but
up.--Jeanine Basinger "The Wall Street Journal"
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