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One of the revelations in Carl Rollyson's Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2012) is the author's use of Dana Andrews' own words in his journals. During the 1930s, while struggling to make a living doing everything from picking fruit to pumping gas, Andrews moved to California from Texas in 1931, married, became a father, and a widower. Throughout this tumultuous period, he also worked daily to hone himself to become the best actor he could. In one of the most moving passages in the book, he wrote:

"I must not become too selfish, self-centered--and egotistical," Dana wrote in his journal of June 8. Indeed, the very next day he wrote that that remarkable passage about how much he had changed since leaving Texas.

No longer a Southerner, he wondered how much he had lost as well as gained by becoming a new man. Acting presented him with an infinitely elastic sense of self. It was a source of strength but also of insecurity. If he could become someone else, someone not from Texas, then who--at his core--was he?

This question bedevils many actors, who turn to performing to find themselves in defining roles. Perhaps for those growing up during the Depression, the very idea of starting over again had a particular poignancy. It meant so much to succeed in the 1930s. Charles [Dana's brother] had just secured a good job in Texas, Dana noted, "at a salary of $135.00 month--pretty good for him--or anybody in these times."

Recognizing that he was changing, achieving a new "richness in my voice" and reminding himself that "Life is simply a matter of concentration; the the things we read today are the things we become tomorrow."

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