Your Friend and Mine, Andy Devine: A Memoir of a Father and His Son, by Dennis Devine, BearManor Media, Albany, Georgia, 2012.
This book gives plenty of inside information on the life of Andy Devine. It is written by his son. Devine grew up in Kingman. His father was working for the railroad, but had an accident. The cash payout after the accident allowed him to purchase the Beale Hotel in Kingman and this is where Andy Devine grew up. Andy injured the roof of his mouth running with a curtain rod in his mouth. It healed but left Devine with a distinctive raspy voice.
Devine is most known for his Hollywood adventures. The book includes a very good list of all the projects in which Devine acted. This included roles with John Wayne and Roy Rogers, usually as a side kick., He hosted "Andy's Gang," a children's program. He was in "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," a television series.
Andy's signature was his voice. It was felt that his voice would limit him, especially as he graduated from silent movies to talkies. But in truth it made him as people remembered his voice. This is very distinctive in his voice role as Friar Tuck in the Disney "Robin Hood."
The information in this is very good, but it does get lost trying to tell two stories at the same time. It is also Dennis Devine memoir book. It goes back and forth between the son telling his own history while also telling his father's history. This frustrated me, as I was more interested int he Andy Devine story.
