Did actor Johnny Mack Brown have a drinking problem later in life, and did it affect his home life?

Johnny Mack Brown (1904–1974) was a college football star turned Hollywood actor, best known for many B-Western films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Reliable public biographies and major newspaper obituaries do not emphasize a widely documented, chronic alcoholism late in his life the way they would for some other celebrities.

That said, some later accounts and anecdotes from people who knew him suggest he could drink socially and that, like many actors of his era, he sometimes drank alcohol. There is no consistent, well-documented record in reputable sources that he developed a severe drinking problem that visibly disrupted his public career or that produced widely reported domestic crises.

About effects on his home life:

• Publicly available records (press accounts, obituaries, studio histories) do not provide clear evidence that alcohol caused marital breakdown or major family scandals. Brown was married several times; marriage and divorce were not uncommon among film actors and do not by themselves prove alcoholism.
• If there were private struggles with alcohol, those details were not broadly published in mainstream sources, so any claims about specific effects on his home life would be speculative.

If you need more depth:

• Consult contemporary newspaper archives, biographies, studio records or memoirs of co-workers for firsthand anecdotes.
• For personal-family details, authoritative sources would be family statements, court records (for divorces), or well-sourced biographies.

I can search available public biographies and newspapers and summarize what they say if you want; tell me which types of sources you'd like checked.