Word: joppolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
John (Major Joppolo) Hodialc, in Manhattan for the cinema premiere of A Bell for Adano, told an interviewer, "I'd like to get married more than anything. I especially believe in being married in Hollywood. It's just no place for a bachelor. There's nothing for a bachelor...
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...