Editing Dana Andrews (section)

=== Leading man ===
[[File:Dana Andrews Richard Loo Purple Heart 1944.jpg|thumb|Andrews and [[Richard Loo]] in ''[[The Purple Heart]]'' (1944)]]

Back at Fox, Andrews was given his first lead, in the [[B-picture]] war movie ''[[Berlin Correspondent]]'' (1942). He was second lead to [[Tyrone Power]] in ''[[Crash Dive]]'' (1943) and then appeared as a [[lynching]] target in the 1943 film adaptation of ''[[The Ox-Bow Incident]]'' with [[Henry Fonda]], giving a performance that [[Bosley Crowther]] of the [[New York Times]] called "heart-wringing," writing that Andrews "does much to make the picture a profoundly distressing tragedy."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crowther |first1=Bosley |title='The Ox-Bow Incident,' Drama of Mob Violence, With Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda in Leads, Opens at the Rivoli |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/10/archives/the-screen-the-oxbow-incident-drama-of-mob-violence-with-dana.html |access-date=21 February 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=10 May 1943 |archive-date=February 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221030730/https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/10/archives/the-screen-the-oxbow-incident-drama-of-mob-violence-with-dana.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Andrews then went back to Goldwyn for ''[[The North Star (1943 film)|The North Star]]'' (1943), directed by [[Lewis Milestone]]. He worked on a government propaganda film ''[[December 7th: The Movie]]'' (1943), then was used by Goldwyn again in ''[[Up in Arms]]'' (1944), supporting [[Danny Kaye]].

Andrews was reunited with Milestone at Fox for ''[[The Purple Heart]]'' (1944), then was in ''[[Wing and a Prayer]]'' (1944) for [[Henry Hathaway]].