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Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as a tribute to someone called Van Johnson, an old-time actor who died at 92 in Nyack, NY, last Dec. 13. Well, though hardly remembered nowadays, the ...
- 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. Van and Eve separated in 1961, and divorced in 1968.
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.
They separated around the time Johnson, according to The Independent newspaper of London, among other sources, had an affair with a male dancer in the London company of “The Music Man,” which starred Johnson as Professor Harold Hill.
- David Lobosco
Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris. 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. “….
- Andre Soares
26 de ago. de 2021 · Van Johnson plays an American journalist working in Paris during the 1944 Liberation, a jet-fuelled time of elation where, according to the movie, young women kiss every man in sight. This is where Johnson meets Elizabeth Taylor, an American ex-pat freshly expelled from university.
Van Johnson. Actor: The Caine Mutiny. Van Johnson was the fresh-faced, well-mannered nice guy on screen you always wanted your daughter to marry! This fair, freckled and invariably friendly-looking MGM song-and-dance star of the 40s emerged a box office favorite (1944-1946) and second only to heartthrob Frank Sinatra during what gossip monger Hedda Hopper dubbed the "Bobby-soxer Blitz" era.
