1940’s Hearttrob Van Johnson Dies At 92 (Photos)

Van Johnson, the star of the 1940’s and 50’s died on Friday at the age of 92. Van Johnson is known for his movies including  “30 Seconds over Tokyo,” “A Guy Named Joe” and “The Caine Mutiny”. Read more on Van Johnson’s death below.

Actor Van Johnson died at an assisted living center in New York called Tappan Zee Manor.

Van Johnson was red-haired and freckled, and known as a good-looking boy-next-door type. Johnson starred with many big-time actresses including Esther Williams, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor and others during his twenty year contract with MGM.

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During the height of his popularity, Johnson was cast most often as the all-American boy. He played a real-life flier who lost his leg in a crash after the bombing of Japan in “30 Seconds Over Tokyo.”

Johnson had a small part in 1985 as a movie actor in Woody Allen’s “The Purple Rose of Cairo.”

Van Johnson was known as a heartthrob and referred to as “the non-singing Sinatra”.

Johnson married only once in 1947 when he eloped to Juarez, Mexico, to marry Eve Wynn, who had just divorced Johnson’s good friend Keenan Wynn four hours before.

The marriage produced a daughter, Schuyler, and ended bitterly 13 years later. “She wiped me out in the ugliest divorce in Hollywood history,” Johnson told reporters.

Condolences to Van Johnson’s family and friends.

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