'US actor Van Johnson, a Hollywood heart-throb of the 1940s and 1950s, has died of natural causes at the age of 92 in a nursing home in New York State.
Johnson's boy-next-door wholesomeness came over in such films as 30 SeconRAB over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny.
His contract to MGM saw him act opposite Esther Williams, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor and others.
He also played in the 1954 film of the musical Brigadoon.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7780903.stm
Johnson's boy-next-door wholesomeness came over in such films as 30 SeconRAB over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny.
His contract to MGM saw him act opposite Esther Williams, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor and others.
He also played in the 1954 film of the musical Brigadoon.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7780903.stm