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Death Notice: Van Johnson
arbogastonfilm.blogspot.com - 12/12/2008
Death Notice: Van Johnson
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I'm just not up for another obit at the moment. Suffice it to say that Hollywood stalwart Van Johnson (above, left) has died at the age of 92. Johnson has credits going back to the Great Flood but watch him in BRIGADOON (1954) to see why he was an early hero to me and an influence on the budding ...
Death Notice: Forrest J. Ackerman
arbogastonfilm.blogspot.com - 12/7/2008
Death Notice: Forrest J. Ackerman
— arbogastonfilm.blogspot.com — Years before I knew of the movie DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (1934), I'd read in Famous Monsters... of Filmland that Prince Sirki had claimed another soul. That was editor-in-chief Forrest J. Ackerman - Uncle Forry, Dr. Acula, 4SJ - being fanciful. Even at the ... (more) Death Notice: Forrest J. Ackerman
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Van Johnson, 1916-2008
selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com - 12/13/2008
Van Johnson, 1916-2008
— selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com — When the Siren read that Van Johnson, freckle-faced star of so many pleasant but lesser MGM movies,... died this week aged 92, she thought of her friend Beth, who was a neighbor of Johnson's on the East Side of Manhattan in the early 1990s. Beth is a ... (more) Van Johnson, 1916-2008
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