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Sep 28, 2009 · Van Johnson's dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s, he was popularized as the bobbysoxer's heartthrob.He won the nation's heart, too, by appearing in a series of blockbuster war films--A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and Battleground.
Birthday: Aug 25, 1916. Birthplace: Newport, Rhode Island, USA. A freckled-faced boy-next-door, actor Van Johnson became a big star at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s when he came to Hollywood from the ...
Van Johnson. Actor; Self “[MGM] was one big happy family and a little kingdom. Everything was provided for us, from singing lessons to barbells. All we had to do ...
Actor Born Charles Van Dell Johnson on Aug. 25, 1916 in Newport, RI. Died Dec. 12, 2008 in Nyack, NY. V an Johnson soared to stardom during World War II as MGM's boy-next-door in films such as "A Guy Named Joe" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." With his broad smile, red hair and freckled face, the tall onetime Broadway chorus boy who personified ...
Died: 2008. Wartime heartthrob Van Johnson was born Charles Van Dell Johnson August 25th, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island, the only child of Loretta Snyder and Charles E. Johnson. Drawn to the stage even in his early years, Johnson attended Rogers High School, and, as a teenager, frequently performed in local Newport social clubs.
Charles Van Dell Johnson (n. 25 august 1916, Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, SUA – d. 12 decembrie 2008, Nyack (d), Comitatul Rockland, New York, New York, SUA) a fost un actor american de film, televiziune, teatru și radio, cântăreț și dansator. A fost o vedetă importantă a studiourilor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer în timpul celui de ...
CHARLES VAN JOHNSON. August 25, 1916 to December 11, 2008. by Katharine Blossom Lowrie. The perennial “guy next door” Despite his lightweight reputation as the perennial “guy next door” in musicals and comedies of the ’40s and ’50s, Van Johnson (above with Esther Williams in an MGM publicity still ) accrued first-rate reviews for sturdier roles: the values-burdened naval lieutenant who relieves Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) of his command in Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 adaptation ...
