The Love Boat
1977
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Dec 19, 2008 · 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...
Midway through the movie's production in 1943, Johnson was involved in a serious car accident that left him with a metal plate in his forehead and a number of scars on his face that the plastic surgery of the time could not completely correct or conceal; he used heavy makeup to hide them for years.
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.
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.
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,...
The scars visible on Van Johnson's forehead at the end of 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. 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 ...
Aug 9, 2015 · After the plane crashes, you can see terrible scars on Van Johnson's forehead for the rest of the movie. Unfortunately, they weren't makeup. He was in a car accident about a year before this film.
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.
Dec 12, 2008 · “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.
Dec 12, 2008 · Everybody remembers Bogart playing with his ball bearings in The Caine Mutiny — including the Academy, which nominated him for an Oscar — but it’s Van Johnson who gave the film its most...
