Was van johnson the actor gay

Almost everything about the real Van Johnson Charles Van Dell Johnson, is more interesting than his movie career. His Little Rhody origins, and the fact that he played John Alden in the soporific pseudo-classic Plymouth Adventure got me curious as to whether I was related to him, perhaps with some Colonial ancestors in common. But no, he was the son of a Swedish immigrant father and a Pennsylvania Dutch mother. Did he ever play a Swede, I wonder?

Reading that actor Van Johnson passed away at age 92 sent me digging for an old theater program, some newspaper clippings, and my journal chronicling the night he played Richmond, Virginia. It was December 15, I was there and wrote:. The play was horrible.

Van Johnson's long time companion and partner was Allen Foshko October 20, - April 1, , who was also his business manager. Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness that made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s," [3] playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM films during the war years, with such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo , A Guy Named Joe , and The Human Comedy. Johnson made occasional World War II films through the end of the s, and played a military officer in one of his final feature films, in At the time of his death in December , he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age".

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?