Van Johnson News

Severin Films have announced the UK DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Eagles Over London on 17th August 2009.

SCENE OF THE CRIME is a noirish black and white police procedural starring Van Johnson as a detective trying to solve the murder of a fellow cop.

Many thanks to Carrie Liz for alerting me that Warner Archive has added a few more titles to their latest list of releases .

The classic 1949 film Battleground ranks as one of the best not only because Ricardo Montalban freezes to death.

The Quick and the Dead : Sunday, 20:00, Sony Entertainment Sharon Stone stars as gunslinger Ellen who arrives in the town of Redemption looking for John Herod , bent on revenge.

It all began with the death in mid-December of Van Johnson. As is my wont, I found something in the Los Angeles Times obituary to grumble about at the breakfast table: no mention of The Bottom of the Bottle.

In the 1949 movie "Battleground" _ one of the best films of World War II that made stars out of a half-dozen male actors - a memorable interlude between the scenes of mayhem around Bastogne took place in a ...

The Glass Bottom Boat : Sunday, 15:00, TCM The unbeatable combination of Doris Day and Que Sera Sera! gives her comic and vocal talents full rein in this wacky farce, co-starring Rod Taylor.

Richard K. "Dick" Millison of Anacortes will celebrate his 90th birthday with a family brunch Sunday, Feb.

You know there's something odd about a movie when you have big, old-time stars like Ava Gardner and Van Johnson in it and yet top billing goes to... William Shatner?!! 1980's R-rated THE KIDNAPPING OF THE ...

Arlene Dahl grew up a nice girl in Minneapolis. Her Midwestern hospitality shines through even on the phone from her home in New York, where she has just finished fixing breakfast for her family.

Ricardo Montalban, a Mexicn national, began his film career in the 1940s appearing in such films as Neptune's Daughter with Esther Williams and Battleground, an early depiction of the Battle of the Bulge with ...

The recent report of the death of actor Van Johnson brought back memories of Academy of Our Lady high school days during the four years of World War II when he became one of our favorite bobby-soxer ...

Before he was Dr. McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey passed for a second-rate Anthony Michael Hall in films like 1987's "Can't Buy Me Love" , an underrated entry in the woe-is-me teen genre with Amanda Peterson playing ...

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ROBERT PHILPOT As we near Christmas, tonight's TV lineup gives us the gift of several offbeat offerings, with tributes to adoption and a classic actor among them.The 10th annual A Home for the Holidays With ...

Dec. 8, 2008 Rabbi Avi Shafran: 'Chanukah Bush' flap and graciousness Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable Dec.

During high school he performed at the social clubs of New York. After graduating, Van found work as a dancer for various Broadway performances.

In the Good Old Summertime, with Buster Keaton, left, S.Z. Sakall and Judy Garland, leads off a Van Johnson tribute.

The classic actor died of natural causes in a New York nursing home. Van Johnson, a popular '40s and '50s film actor, passed away today in Nyack, N.Y. Johnson reportedly died of natural causes.