The Love Boat
1977
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Apr 12, 2013 · Near the end of The Caine Mutiny (1954) there's a startling close-up of Van Johnson in which his pronounced facial scars from a 1943 car accident, so carefully hidden by studio makeup artists for so many years, are revealed more fully than they'd ever been on screen.
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...
Dec 13, 2008 · He was left with a severely scarred forehead and ametal plate on the left side of his head, which exempted him from military service. But his near-fatal accident and three-month hospital stay...
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.")
Nov 5, 2019 · 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 with three or four films a year. Among them: The...
Dec 12, 2008 · Benjamin Svetkey. Published on December 12, 2008 12:00PM EST. Van Johnson, who died today at age 92 in Nyack, N.Y., was a better actor than Hollywood usually allowed him to be. Like most 1950s ...
Feb 21, 2019 · Yes and Van Johnson had a steel plate put in his forehead too. 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...
