VAN JOHNSON,S NARROW ESCAPE
Van Johnson narrowly escaped 'fatal injury in a tripie car smash' 'last week. A back-seat passenger I in a 'studio - car, the star was 'returning from location on "High Barbaree." Metro, who rushed Van to a rigid medical check-up, got the worst shock of all. I Van was nearly killed in a motor- ; cycle crash last year, and bears the i forehead scars to this 4ay- • In I April of this year, he underwent a i second operation as a result of that j smash. The studio has already forbidden its Bobby-Socker king to motQrcycle, frowns on aeroplanes and is now considering keepipg him down to a walk. "High Barbaree," a tale of a hyer forced down on a strange Pacific island, gives Van and June Allyson the most adult roles to date.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 August 1946, Page 6
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