Van johnson bisexual

Well, though hardly remembered nowadays, the tall, red -headed, freckle-faced Van Johnson was a major box office attraction in the United States in the second half of the s. A serious car accident as he and best friends Keenan and Evie Abbott Wynn were on their way to a screening at MGM was to leave the former Broadway chorus boy away from the studio for months and out of World War II for good. Among other injuries, Johnson suffered a fractured skull and had bone fragments piercing his brain. He was left with a severely scarred forehead and a metal plate several inches long on the left side of his head.

Hello everybody. By , Johnson was voted by movie theater owners as the No. But questions still were asked about his sexual preferences. As a result, every gorgeous babe on the MGM lot was urged to pursue Johnson. Surely he could be married off to any one of the beautiful, young women both stars and starlets. By this time Johnson had become a genuine star in the MGM galaxy. The press of those years certainly could be controlled — especially by the renowned studio fixer team of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling.

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I loved Van Johnson no matter what. Rumors can't hurt him now that he is dead and will forever be a Number 1 Great Actor to me. How does his Daughter feel about these unproven rumors? From your blogger: How does his daughter feel, you ask?