Editing Van Johnson (section)

==Early life==
Johnson was born in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], the only child<ref name="TCM"/> of Loretta (née Snyder) and Charles E. Johnson, a plumber and later a real-estate salesman. His father was born in Sweden and came to the United States as a child, and his mother had [[Pennsylvania Dutch]] ancestry.<ref name="TCM">{{cite web| url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/person/96027%7C150158/Van-Johnson| title=Van Johnson Biography| website=Turner Classic Movies| access-date= October 28, 2011}}</ref> His mother was allegedly an alcoholic who left the family when he was a child, and he was not close to his father.<ref>Davis 2001, p. 7.</ref>