Editing Dana Andrews (section)

== Personal life ==
Andrews married Janet Murray on December 31, 1932.<ref name="janet murray"/> Murray died two and a half years later in October 1935 as a result of [[pneumonia]].<ref name="janet murray">{{cite news |title=Popular Young Matron Is Summoned |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-van-nuys-news-and-valley-green-sheet/154592869/ |work=The Van Nuys News |issue=25 |date=October 31, 1935 |page=1}}</ref>  Their son, David, was later a radio announcer and musical director who died early from a [[intracerebral hemorrhage]] in February 1964 at the age of 30.<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=David Andrews |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-david-andrews/154591675/ |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=February 17, 1964 |page=21C}}</ref> Four years after the death of his first wife Janet Murray, on November 17, 1939, Andrews married stage actress Mary Todd<ref>{{cite news |title=People: Mary Todd Andrews|publisher=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2003/scene/people-news/mary-todd-andrews-1117879964/ Mary Todd|access-date=April 25, 2025}}</ref> (1916&ndash;2003). She appeared in 1976 on ''The [[Bob Braun|Bob Braun Show]]'', a local television [[talk show]] on [[WCPO-TV]] (channel 9) in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite news |editor=Taylor, Ethel M. |title=Mary Todd To Be Bride Of Dana Andrews |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-van-nuys-news-mary-todd/154593705/ |work=The Van Nuys News |date=November 16, 1939 |page=2}}</ref><ref name="query.nytimes"/> The couple had three children: Katharine, Stephen, and Susan, in addition to son David from Andrews' first marriage.<ref name="query.nytimes"/>

Andrews struggled with alcoholism, but eventually won the battle and worked actively later with the [[National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence]], using his experience as a teaching tool.<ref name=be>{{cite news| last1=Bass| first1=Milton R.| title=The Lively World| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2616598/the_berkshire_eagle/| newspaper=[[The Berkshire Eagle]]| date=August 16, 1977| page=6| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=June 14, 2015| archive-date=October 5, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005123530/http://www.newspapers.com/clip/2616598/the_berkshire_eagle/| url-status=live}}{{Open access}}</ref> Several years later, during 1972, he appeared in a television public service advertisement concerning the subject of alcohol abuse.<ref name="query.nytimes" /> During the last years of his life, Andrews also suffered from [[Dementia#Terminology|senility]]/[[dementia]] factors of [[Alzheimer's disease]], which was increasingly occurring in the older American population at a time when Alzheimer's research was in its infancy. He spent his final years living at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease in [[Los Alamitos, California|Los Alamitos]], ([[Orange County, California]].<ref name="query.nytimes" />

On December 17, 1992,  Andrews died of [[Heart failure|congestive heart failure]] and [[pneumonia]], at the age of 83 years.<ref>{{cite web|date=December 18, 1992|title=Dana Andrews Dies; Actor Was a Success but Not a Star|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-18-me-2163-story.html|access-date=November 14, 2020|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724094612/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-18-me-2163-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His wife Mary Todd Andrews died a decade later in January 2003 at the age of 86 years, noted in the entertainment magazine ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' the following month.<ref>{{Cite web|author=<!-- Staff writer(s); no by-line. -->|date=February 4, 2003|title=Mary Todd Andrews|url=https://variety.com/2003/scene/people-news/mary-todd-andrews-1117879964/|access-date=November 14, 2020|website=Variety|language=en-US|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724094612/https://variety.com/2003/scene/people-news/mary-todd-andrews-1117879964/|url-status=live}}</ref>