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In the s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury. The marriage, which produced a daughter, Schuyler, ended in divorce in Johnson's marriage had a profound effect on his youthful female fan base.

But by the time he married Evie Wynn, he was too big a star for the studio to punish. Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, [2] – December 12, ) was an American actor and dancer. A widely circulated joke at the time said that when Johnson's young female fans found out that he had gotten married, they wore their bobby socks at half-mast.

Simultaneously, a section of his obitiary in the Los Angeles Times reported:. In the end, entertainment journalist Michael Musto set the record, straight so to speak about Van Johnson in The Village Voice in Actor Van Johnson, who died inwas one of Hollywood's ideal films idols.

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Johnson married Wynn, the mother of two young sons, in Juarez, Mexico, only four hours after she had obtained a Mexican divorce. However, the couple ultimately separated when Johnson commenced an affair with a member of the show's cast. Evie reconciled with Johnson for a short time and, injourneyed with him to London, where he performed on stage in The Music Man.

However, Johnson's stardom was nearly curtailed due to a serious car accident. Johnson’s first big hit was the syrupy A Guy Named Joe (), in which he gets the girl at the end (Irene Dunne, 18 years his senior), while leaving to heaven the film’s nominal male star, Spencer Tracy’s ghost.

He had a prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio, which spanned over 50 years, from to Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe, with Irene Dunne and Spencer Tracy. Ned Wynn, Evie's son, said she told him that Johnson had left her "for a man — a boy, really.

Johnson suffered a fractured skull, had bone fragments that pierced his brain, and was left with a scar on his forehead and a long metal plate on the left side of his head. For example, a portion of the New York Times obituary of the actor read as follows:. Actor Van Johnsonwho died inwas one of Hollywood's ideal films idols.

Inafter Evie Wynn there were references in the press to Van Johnson's double life. (Dunne and Tracy reportedly demanded a halt to filming until their young costar fully recovered from his. While his scar was strategically hidden in his movies by the make-up department, it is visibble in the court-martial drama The Caine Mutiny.

However, Johnson's stardom was nearly curtailed due to a serious car accident. It happend when he and close friends actor Keenan Wynne and. Evie eventually sued Johnson for divorceciting cruelty and mental abuse, and a few weeks later she sued Wynn for "fraud and breach of contract" in their property settlement and for failing to pay child support.

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Meanwhile, Johnson had referred to his departure from Evie as " the ugliest divorce in Hollywood history. It happend when he and close friends actor Keenan Wynne and his wife Evie Abbott were en route to a movie screening. Beyond the careful camoflauge of his physical scars, Van Johnson, who was gayand the Hollywood publicity machine worked overtime to conceal his true sexuality.

In the s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury). He's the lead boy dancer. They had a daughter, Schuyler, inseparated in and were divorced in Johnson did not remarry.

Several of his fans felt betrayed when he wed Evie the day after her divorce from Keenan] Wynn, while others who knew about Johnson's sexual ambuguity questioned the reality of the marriage.