For some reason my parents didn’t care for actor Van Johnson. He was in that great Battle of the Bulge movie. Maybe he was a draft dodger, but I’m not sure.
Wish they told you why. My dad got me watching WW2 movies and now if a movie with Van Johnson is on I must see it.
The fieldmarshall, above, says that Van Johnson was just a little light in the combat boots.
I suspect my parents told me he was 4-F because I was a kid and they didn’t want to talk about such things.
As a postscript, when actor Rock Hudson started looking bad with AIDs—sunken cheeks, etc.—I broke the news to my mother that he was, uh ... wired for alternating current.
She was a big fan of his and was terribly disappointed in him.
And mad at me for telling her, but I didn’t want her seeing it in a supermarket tabloid.