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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 13 > Van Johnson, ’40s idol and ‘voiceless Sinatra’

Van Johnson, ’40s idol and ‘voiceless Sinatra’

By Adam Bernstein / The Bulletin
December 13, 2008

Van Johnson, a disarming and popular Hollywood star of 1940s musicals and comedies who later proved effective as a G.I. grunt in “Battleground” and a conflicted Naval officer in “The Caine Mutiny,” has died. He was 92.

Starting in the late 1940s, Johnson....

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