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  1. Dec 19, 2008 · The late actor Van Johnson had a scar on his forehead from a 1943 car accident that was often covered by makeup. He also faced studio pressure to marry a friend's ex-wife and had a gay affair in London.

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  3. Apr 12, 2013 · Learn about the actor's car accident, studio pressure, marriage, and sexuality in this blog post. See how his scars were hidden and revealed in his films, and how he coped with his career decline.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Van_JohnsonVan Johnson - Wikipedia

    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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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