He proved that a male actor doesn't need to be a trim, muscular guy with a smooth voice. He was just a likable character. I read that he got his scratchy voice from an accident as a small kid. He was running with a piece of curtain rod in his mouth and he fell. It poked a hole in the back of his mouth. It healed but his voice was never the same.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
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Andy played college and simi pro football, acted in over 400 films, and was a Republican, like many of the group of actors that were associated with the Duke.
At Ward Bond's funeral John Ford was reputed to have looked at Andy Devine and said, "Now you're the biggest [bleep] I know".
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Devine claimed that his distinctive voice resulted from a childhood accident in which he fell while running with a curtain rod in his mouth at the Beale Hotel in Kingman, causing the rod to pierce the roof of his mouth. When he was able to speak again, he had a labored, scratchy, duo-tone voice.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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