Word: hodiak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's Major Joppolo is a likable young man named John Hodiak whose earnest performance suffers mainly from its inevitable comparison with the expert underplaying of Actor March. The girl Tina (Gene Tierney), whose role is no clearer nor any more necessary in the picture than it is in the play, is a remarkably clean-looking girl who has apparently cornered all of war-ravaged Italy's remaining soap, and who tries to give an illusion of foreignness by talking very slowly...
...there are families, and soldiers. There is certainly no reason why the family should not be a poor one, so that the Sunday Dinner involves sacrifice and anticipation; or why there should not be a marriageable girl (Anne Baxter) on hand; or why she and the soldier (John Hodiak) should not fall in love, even within a day, and make a happy ending of it. But there is every reason why all these people should be real and human, and why the things they do should be unaffected and uncontrived...
...good thing that war has brought to Hollywood studies is new faces to replace the Gables and Taylors in the services--Sonny Tufts, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Eddie Bracken, John Hodiak, Alexander Knox, Paul Henreid, with others appearing every month. Some of the new leading men are not so good as the old stand-bys, but they all have the advantage of freshness. Of course hams like Edward G. Robinson and Wallace Beery are still around to remind us of our Saturday matinee days, but they've gone stale. If you can't predict every line in "Barbary Coast Gent...
three works-in-progress-1) a divorce from Husband Steve Crane, 2) reported trysts with Cinemactor John Hodiak (Lifeboat), 3) a pressagent's dream that her new hairdo would be adopted as the WACs' G.I.-blew up all over a Hollywood nightclub when a photographer caught her dancing with her escort, Actor Peter Lawford...
...takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...