DANA ANDREWS BREAKS INTO 'FAMILY AFFAIR' WITH BRIAN KEITH

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL Year: 1969 Grade: A

By 1969, former Hollywood star Dana Andrews was bridging villain parts in big-budget movies, hero parts in low-budget movies, and random television guest spots, like on FAMILY AFFAIR Season 4's THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL opposite Brian Keith (right before Dana landed his own soap opera BRIGHT FUTURE), whose father Robert Keith played his would-be father-in-law in MY FOOLISH HEART...

Here, as a white collar ex-con fresh out of prison, Dana's Harv Mullen stays at the Davis apartment, but soon Buffy and Jodie get paranoid: he hides his piggy-bank, she hides her doll's mock-jewelry while progressive Sissy gives Harv a scholastic interview about prison life, eventually making the poor guy so overwhelmed he almost leaves... until, like all classic sitcoms, everything's resolved by a soft fatherly lecture about how prisoners are people too.

Johnny Whitaker and Anissa Jones on FAMILY AFFAIR

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Brian Keith

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Johnny Whitaker

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Kathy Garver

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL with Brian Keith

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Anissa Jones and Jodie Whitaker

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Brian Keith with Sebastian Cabot

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Brian Keith

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR with Brian Keith

Dana Andrews in MY FOOLISH HEART with Brian's dad Robert Keith