Andy Devine was born in Flagstaff, Arizona on October 7th, 1905 but when he was a year old the family moved to Kingman where he grew up. Thanks to a childhood accident Andy Devine’s voice was best described as a “dual-tone wheeze.” Later, when asked if he had nodes on his vocal cords Andy quipped, “I have the same nodes as Bing Crosby but his are in tune.”
As a college athlete at Northern Ari
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