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Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor and dancer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ...
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is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ...
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Johnson was born to Charles E. Johnson (who was born in Sweden) and Loretta, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The Pennsylvania Dutch (perhaps more strictly Pennsylvania Deitsch or Pennsylvanian German) are the descendants of German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania prior to 1800. ...
Career
His acting career began in earnest in 1936 in the Broadway revue New Faces of 1936. In 1939, he landed a part in Rodgers and Hart's Too Many Girls in the role of a college boy (after being Gene Kelly's understudy in Pal Joey). RKO then signed him to a short-term contract to star in the film adaptation of the play which became Johnson's film debut. MGM picked up his contract from RKO soon after and cast him in several bit parts. The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
Rodgers and Hart was the songwriting team consisting of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ...
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Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. ...
Pal Joey Studio cast album 1950 Pal Joey is a 1940 Broadway musical by American writer John OHara, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. ...
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In 1942, while en route to a preview screening for Keeper of the Flame, he was involved in a car crash that left him with a metal plate in his forehead. This left him exempt from service in World War II. After this incident, MGM built up his image as the "all-American boy" by co-starring him in films with June Allyson and Esther Williams, among others. He also had his fair share of serious roles in films such as A Guy Named Joe, Week-End at the Waldorf, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and Battleground. Keeper of the Flame is an album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music). ...
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June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Esther Jane Williams (born August 8, 1921[1][2] or 1922[3]) is a retired United States competitive swimmer and movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving. ...
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film by Victor Fleming. ...
Week-End at the Waldorf is a 1945 American drama film. ...
The Ruptured Duck, which was the bomber depicted in the movie Nose-art of the Ruptured Duck Thirty Seconds over Tokyo is a 1944 film based on a 1943 book by Ted W. Lawson. ...
Movie poster reprint of Battleground Battleground is a 1949 war film which tells the story of a squad of the 101st Airborne Division trying to cope during the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium. ...
When the studio system declined in the mid-1950s, Johnson's popularity did also. He left MGM for Columbia Pictures to co-star in The Caine Mutiny (1954) to much acclaim (His scar from the car crash is very visible in this film). Since 1960, his film career has been inconsistent. Johnson guest-starred on television shows such as Batman, Here's Lucy, and The Love Boat and in the 1970s ground breaking mini-series, Rich Man, Poor Man, with stars Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte. In 1985, he enjoyed something of a comeback. He toured with the hit Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles and appeared in a supporting role in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo. The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ...
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TV Guide cover, promoting Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burtons famous appearance on a 1970 episode of Heres Lucy Heres Lucy was Lucille Balls third network television sitcom. ...
The Love Boat was an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ...
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel written by Irwin Shaw. ...
The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
La Cage aux Folles is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. ...
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 English language film written and directed by Woody Allen. ...
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Van Johnson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Blvd. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...
Personal life Johnson married Eve Lynn Abbott on January 25, 1947, the day her divorce from actor Keenan Wynn was finalized. In 1999, Eve told a reporter that their marriage had been arranged by MGM because the studio "needed their star to be married to quell rumors about his sexual preferences".[1] In his 2005 biography of Louis B. Mayer, Lion of Hollywood, Scott Eyman quotes her as saying, "In retrospect I can see he (Mayer) was arranging my marriage to Van just as Universal did for Rock Hudson. That was a farce. Ours was a real marriage. I was in love with Van, but I wouldn't have married him if I'd known he was a homosexual." According to stepson Ned Wynn, the Johnsons separated in 1961 over an alleged affair by Eve with a young man, and divorced in 1968. Eve Lynn Abbott Wynn Johnson died in 2004 at the age of 90. is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Wynn in Warning Shot (1967) Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. ...
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He is estranged from their daughter, Shuyler, born in 1948. She stated to the The Globe that he was a cold and detached father for most of her life. The Globe is a supermarket tabloid published in North America. ...
He underwent treatment for skin cancer in 1963. In his later years, Johnson enjoyed a quiet life in retirement in New York.
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In psychology, personality describes the character of emotion, thought, and behavior patterns unique to a person. ...
The Human Comedy is a novel by William Saroyan. ...
Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film which tells the story of Polish- French physicist Marie Curie. ...
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film by Victor Fleming. ...
The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film based on the Alice Duer Miller poem entitled The White Cliffs. It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an aristocrat. ...
The Ruptured Duck, which was the bomber depicted in the movie Nose-art of the Ruptured Duck Thirty Seconds over Tokyo is a 1944 film based on a 1943 book by Ted W. Lawson. ...
Week-End at the Waldorf is a 1945 American drama film. ...
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ...
Till The Clouds Roll By is an American musical-biographical film released by MGM in 1946. ...
State of the Union is a 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay, which was adapted into a 1948 film directed by Frank Capra. ...
Scene of the Crime was the title for a comic book miniseries published by DC Comics. ...
In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. ...
Movie poster reprint of Battleground Battleground is a 1949 war film which tells the story of a squad of the 101st Airborne Division trying to cope during the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium. ...
Duchess of Idaho is a musical romantic comedy produced in 1950 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...
Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. ...
Line-up: Vocals: Jouni Nikula Guitar: Emppu Vuorinen Guitar: Jani Liimatainen Bass: Marko Pukkila Drums: Tony Smedjebacka Track listing Unicorn (3:32) History of Times to Come (4:16) Ravenwing (4:30) Innocent (4:11) Wrath of a Warchild (4:13) Kingdom of the Night (2:55) Fire & Ice (3...
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Plymouth Adventure is a motion picture drama released in 1952. ...
Easy to Love is a 1936 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the film Born to Dance, where it was James Stewart and Eleanor Powell. ...
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DVD cover Brigadoon is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, first produced in 1947. ...
Poster for The Last Time I Saw Paris The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by MGM, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald s short story Babylon Revisited. ...
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Directed by Terence Young, the plot of Action of the Tiger is about the rescue of a political prisoner held in Albania. ...
The oldest picture of Pied Piper (watercolour) copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin by Freiherr Augustin von Moersperg. ...
Web of Evidence is a 1959 British film based on the novel, Beyond This Place, by A.J. Cronin. ...
Web of Evidence is a 1959 British film based on the novel, Beyond This Place, by A.J. Cronin. ...
Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson, with Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball and Van Johnson. ...
The Price of Power (Il Prezzo del potere, 1969) is an Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Tonino Valerii. ...
From Corleone to Brooklyn (Original title: Da Corleone a Brooklyn) is an Italian crime thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi. ...
The Kidnapping of the President is a 1980 political thriller film made by Presidential Films and Sefel Films and distributed by Crown International Pictures. ...
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 English language film written and directed by Woody Allen. ...
Clowning Around was a childrens television series filmed on location in Perth, Western Australia and Paris, France in 1991. ...
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