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Johnson's marriage to Eve Abbott ended four years after Mayer's death when Johnson, performing as Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man on the legitimate stage in the West End in London, United Kingdom, began an affair with a male dancer in the production, according to her son Ned Wynn.
Van Johnson, to me, was a fine actor who projected good vibes and was a “team player” in the golden age of Hollywood. Yes, I’ve heard that he was gay, but who cares. Tabloids have scewered many stars about their sexuality, and it only adds to the mystique, doesn’t it.
- Andre Soares
24 de ago. de 2017 · Van Johnson was gay. He married Eve Abbott Wynn on January 25, 1947, one day after her divorce from actor Keenan Wynn. The three had been very close friends. In 1948, the couple had a daughter named Schuyler, but lacage Van maintained a close relationship with Keenan Wynn.
25 de out. de 2022 · America waited with bated breath for its most desirable bachelor to wed, and Van’s choice of bride shocked them—and not in a good way. Van married Eve in Mexico on January 25, 1947, just hours after her official divorce from Keenan.
Shockingly, Van wound up marrying Wynn's ex-wife, one-time stage actress Evie Wynn Johnson, immediately after the Wynn's divorced in 1947. Van and Eve went on to have one child, daughter Schuyler, in 1948, and were a popular Hollywood couple before separating after fifteen years of marriage.
Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door Pt.1. “A project of his time, Van Johnson illustrates the fantasy world that Hollywood projected during the 1940s and 1950s,” writes Ronald L. Davis in Van Johnson: MGM’s Golden Boy. “…
12 de abr. de 2013 · Johnson and Wynn Johnson divorced in 1968. In 1999, five years before her death, Johnson’s ex-wife wrote of MGM: “They needed their ‘big star’ to be married to quell rumours about his sexual preferences.”
