Sign a petition for a Van Johnson Postage Stamp ~ vanjohnsonstamp.org/petition.html. Thrill of a Romance was a huge box office success, becoming the eighth-highest grossing film of 1945. This was the second of five films pairing Williams and Johnson together over an eight year period, Van and Esther teamed up for Easy to Wed (1946), Duchess of Idaho (1950) and Easy to Love (1953). Their first movie together was A Man Named Joe w/Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne. Esther had a brief scene dancing with Van...