The Love Boat
1977
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Didya Know? - The scars on Van Johnson's face in The Caine Mutiny (1954) are real, not make-up. While filming A Guy Named Joe (1943), Johnson was in an automobile accident and thrown through the car's windshield. The plastic surgery of the day could not totally remove his scars. In all of his later films, he wore heavy make-up to hide them, but ...
Van Johnson’s scar occurred while he was involved in a severe car accident midway through filming A Guy Named Joe (1943). The crash left him with a metal plate on his forehead, facial scars, and ...
Aug 21, 2019 · After many months and surgeries, Van returned to work, weak and with a noticeable scar on his forehead and a five-inch metal plate in his head. (When friend June Allyson told him he should get plastic surgery to remove his forehead scar, Van said, "This is now part of my character. Let people see reality.")
Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as a tribute to someone called Van Johnson, an old-time actor who died at 92 in Nyack, NY, last Dec. 13. Well, though hardly remembered nowadays, the ...
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Nov 5, 2019 · Actor Van Johnson, '40s heartthrob, dies at 92. ... A Guy Named Joe was postponed for his recovery, and the forehead scar went unnoticed in his resulting popularity. MGM cashed in on his stardom ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) - The scars visible on Van Johnson's forehead throughout the film are not makeup, they're real. He was involved in a near-fatal car accident the previous year just after filming A Guy Named Joe (1943). The filmmakers chose to accentuate rather than hide these scars for the post-mission half of the movie, since his character Ted Lawson was quite banged up, too ...
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May 28, 2020 · Johnson’s scars are visible in A GUY NAMED JOE, and you can spot a long scar on his forehead in later film roles. The injuries from his wreck and the metal plate kept Johnson from serving in World War II, but he frequently performed in military roles, and within a year was a top box office draw.
