Actor John Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1914. He was of Ukranian descent. He had numerous jobs, including working as a Chevrolet car salesman before going to Hollywood. He starred in such films as Lifeboat and A Bell For Adano. His wife was actress Anne Baxter. They had one daughter, Katrina and then divorced in 1953. John Hodiak died of a massive coronary thrombosis at the age of 41 in 1955. He was considered by his peers to be one of the nicest men in Hollywood. Anne Baxter, in her autobiography, Intermission, blamed the failure of her marriage to Hodiak on herself.
John "Jonathan" Gilmore (born July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist and journalist.
John Gilmore was born in the Charity Ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital and was raised in Hollywood.
During the 1950s, and through JohnHodiak, Gilmore sustained an acquaintanceship with Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood, then in New York, where Gilmore was involved with the Actors Studio, transcribing the lectures of Lee Strasberg into book form.