New Year Wishes, Gang!

Yep, your authors here at the CM blog wish you the best in the new year! And if you have a bit of bubbly, like Anne & John, make sure you have Jeeves drive you home.

Quick John Hodiak Plug

This Sunday (8/17) is John Hodiak day on TCM, so I'm firin' up my DVR to catch up on his films I haven't seen before.

Check out the day-long schedule over on the Summer Under the Stars website.

I now return you to regular, Montgomery programming...

Happy New Year!

Have a great 2014, or in this case, 1951! (Btw., this pic is screaming to be colorized...)

 

Midnight Toast - As the clock strikes twelve to usher in the year 1951, one of Hollywood's happiest couples, Anne Baxter and John Hodiak, are prepared for a New Year's toast. Both are enjoying top honors in Hollywood, Miss Baxter's newest success being her brilliant performance in the 20th Century-Fox production, "All About Eve."

Continuing Kathy's Theme

Just had to post the smile - love this shot of Spike from The Miniver Story.

And am I the only person who can barely watch the movie without crying?

 

Mr. Hodiak Playing the Colonel

Did We All Forget John Hodiak?

Last week, I was flipping through the DVR listings for TCM, picking out stuff to watch.  I came across Maisie Goes to Reno (1944), said what the heck, and hit the record button. I finally sat down last night to watch a movie all the way through and picked out Maisie.

Lessee, last time I watched a Maisie movie, she was in love with Robert Young's character.  Last night, she fell in love with Flip - John Hodiak. How Masie goes from guy to guy in each movie is another blog topic, but Hodiak kinda caught my eye. I thought he was strictly 1950s. Then I Googled him (yes, it did tickle).

Looking at his filmography, I realized I had probably seen him in five different movies over the past two months. Add to that, his shortened career due to a heart attack, has really made it difficult to find any information on him. At least one blog out there has a good writeup.

But really what got me was sitting at my desk to write this post. I realized I have a photo of him here staring right at me.

So everyone reading here has some homework. Go watch a John Hodiak movie or two and remember him. Better yet, drop a line here and let us know the flick - I'm curious now.