Was van johnson gay

Louis B Mayer was privy to whispers about Van’s real love life, and he knew the scandalous truth behind his hesitancy to date: He was gay. Mayer feared that this would become public knowledge and worked furiously to orchestrate a romance between Van and literally any woman.

Johnson's biographer Ronald L. Davis writes that it "seems to have been well known in the film capital" that Johnson had homosexual tendencies, but this was never reported or hinted at by newspaper columnists or movie magazine writers during the era when Johnson made movies. [23].

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.

Hollywood heartthrob Van Johnson died on Friday in Nyack, NY. He was The mainstream media makes no mention of the fact that he was a closeted gay man. It's Merv Griffin all over again.

Louis B Mayer was privy to whispers about Van’s real love life, and he knew the scandalous truth behind his hesitancy to date: He was gay. Mayer feared that this would become public knowledge and worked furiously to orchestrate a romance between Van and literally any woman.

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.

Johnson's biographer Ronald L. Davis writes that it "seems to have been well known in the film capital" that Johnson had homosexual tendencies, but this was never reported or hinted at by newspaper columnists or movie magazine writers during the era when Johnson made movies. [23].

Hollywood heartthrob Van Johnson died on Friday in Nyack, NY. He was The mainstream media makes no mention of the fact that he was a closeted gay man. It's Merv Griffin all over again.