Van Johnson — Actor (33)
Concorde Affair (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Concorde Affaire '79
other title: Concorde Affaire '79 / Concorde 820 forsvinder
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Mother Is a Freshman (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mother Is a Freshman
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Loretta Young / Van Johnson
other title: L'adorabile intrusa / Mamá es mi rival
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
director: Bretaigne Windust actor: Van Johnson / Claude Rains
other title: El flautista de Hamelín
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.
Duchess of Idaho (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Duchess of Idaho
other title: La Duchessa dell'Idaho / Die Venus verliebt sich
Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to step in, and devises a plan. Chris follows Morrison on his trip to Sun Valley, Idaho and plays the overattentive female, hoping that he will send for Ellen (who often played his "fiancée" when he had a female he couldn't discourage otherwise.) Complications arise when Chris catches the eye of band leader Dick Layne, and finds herself caught in a triangle between the two men.
Battleground (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Battleground
director: William A. Wellman actor: Van Johnson / John Hodiak
other title: Bastogne / A Grande Batalha
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Brigadoon (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Brigadoon
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Gene Kelly / Van Johnson
other title: Brigadoon: A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
23 Paces to Baker Street
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Van Johnson / Vera Miles
other title: 23 passi dal delitto / Treogtyve skridt til Baker Street
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Confidentially Connie (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Confidentially Connie
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Van Johnson / Janet Leigh
other title: La Petite Constance / Cuando llega la cigüeña
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.