


Van Heflin’s wartime Oscar and its replacement (which looks a little worse for wear too).



Van Heflin’s wartime Oscar and its replacement (which looks a little worse for wear too).


Photo and review of the Playhouse 90 episode “Dark Side of the Earth,” with Van Heflin and Kim Hunter.


A photo and a review of “Dark Side of the Earth,” a Playhouse 90 installment starring Van Heflin and written by Rod Serling.

Los Angeles Examiner columnist Harry Crocker went to Palm Springs and met Van Heflin in the deep end of the pool. Methinks Van is a better outdoorsman than he relates in this item, from 1949. 3/3

Here’s another Harry Crocker column from the Los Angeles Examiner, featuring a Van Heflin sketch and behind-the-scenes antics. This item is from 1948 and the filming of “Act of Violence.” 2/3

The Los Angeles Examiner featured columns about celebrity goings-on accompanied by whimsical in-house sketches of the stars. Here’s the first of three for today with Van Heflin. This item is from 1945 and the filming of “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” 1/3




A love letter, er, magazine article about Van Heflin, Photoplay/Movie Mirror, December 1942.

A happier report to follow up on a previous post about Van’s fishing trip on “American Sportsman” in 1968.