Van Johnson red socks
date: label: date made
content: around 1940s
notes: label: Description
content: Pair of unworn red socks associated with Van Johnson, an American actor who is well known for his work with MGM during WWII and throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Wearing red socks like these became one of his trademark looks.
label: Description
content: Van Johnson was born Charles Van Dell Johnson on 25 August 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island. Johnson had his Broadway debut in <i>New Faces of 1936</i> and was cast by director George Abbott in <i>Too Many Girls</i> in 1939. He began his contract with MGM in 1942 as Dr. Randall ‘Red’ Adams in the Dr. Gillespie movie series and had his big break in the 1943 MGM film <i>A Guy Named Joe</i>, during which he was injured, keeping him from being drafted in WWII. He continued to play solider-type roles in films, most notably <i> Battleground</i> (1949), <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> (1954), and <i>Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo</i> (1944). Johnson died on 12 December 2008 and his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honors his contributions to the film industry.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3075.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2015.3075
label: catalog number
content: 2015.3075.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: socks, pair of
label: Object Name
content: socks, pair
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 39.37 cm x 5.715 cm