Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)
was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and
singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several
classic films noir, and is generally considered a forerunner of the
antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His
best-known films include
Out of the Past

Out of the Past (1947), The Night of the
Hunter (1955), and Cape Fear (1962). Mitchum was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Story of G.I. Joe
(1945).
Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute's list of
the greatest male stars of Classic American Cinema.[1]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Acting
2.1 Film noir
2.2 Career in the 1950s and '60s
3 Music
3.1 Albums
3.2 Singles
4 Later years
5 Death
6 Legacy
7 Documentary
8 Filmography
9 References
10 External links
Early life[edit]
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum was born in
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1917 into a
Norwegian-Irish
Methodist

Methodist family.[2] His mother Ann Harriet Gunderson
was a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter; his father James
Thomas Mitchum was a shipyard and railroad worker of Irish descent.[3]
His older sister, Annette (known as
Julie Mitchum
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Julie Mitchum during her acting
career), was born in 1914. Their father
James Mitchum was crushed to
death in a railyard accident in
Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina in February
1919, when Robert was less than two years old and Annette was not yet
five. Their mother was awarded a government pension; she soon realized
she was pregnant; her and James' second son John was born in September
of that year. Ann married again, to Major Hugh Cunningham Morris, a
former
Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve officer. He helped care for her three
children. Ann and Morris also had a daughter together, Carol Morris,
born July 1927 on the family farm in Delaware. When all of the
children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a
linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.[4]
As a child Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in
fistfights and mischief. When he was 12, his mother sent Mitchum to
live with her parents in Felton, Delaware; the boy was promptly
expelled from middle school for scuffling with the principal. A year
later, in 1930, he moved in with his older sister Annette, in New
York's Hell's Kitchen. After being expelled from Haaren High School,
he left his sister and traveled throughout the country on railroad
cars,[5] taking a number of jobs, including ditch-digging for the
Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps and professional boxing. He had many
adventures during his years as one of the Depression era's "wild boys
of the road". At age 14 in Savannah, Georgia, he was arrested for
vagrancy and put on a local chain gang.[5] By Mitchum's own account,
he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware. During this time,
while recovering from injuries that nearly cost him a leg, he met
Dorothy Spence, whom he would later marry. He soon went back on the
road, eventually riding the rails to California.[6]
Acting[edit]
Mitchum arrived in
Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California in 1936, staying again with
his sister Annette, now going by the name of Julie. She had migrated
to the West Coast in the hope of acting in movies. Soon, the rest of
the Mitchum family joined them in Long Beach. During this time,
Mitchum worked as a ghostwriter for astrologer Carroll Righter. His
sister Julie convinced him to join the local theater guild with her.
In his years with the Players Guild of Long Beach, Mitchum made a
living as a stagehand and occasional bit-player in company
productions. He also wrote several short pieces which were performed
by the guild. According to Lee Server's biography (Robert Mitchum:
Baby, I Don't Care), Mitchum put his talent for poetry to work writing
song lyrics and monologues for Julie's nightclub performances.
In 1940, he returned to
Delaware

Delaware to marry Dorothy Spence, and they
returned to California. He remained a footloose character until the
birth of their first child James, nicknamed Josh. They had two more
children: Chris and Petrine. Mitchum got a steady job as a machine
operator with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.[6]
Mitchum suffered a nervous breakdown (which resulted in temporary
blindness), apparently from job-related stress. He sought work as an
actor or extra in films. His agent got him an interview with Harry
Sherman, the producer of Paramount's
Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy western film
series which starred William Boyd; Mitchum was hired to play minor
villainous roles in several films in the series during 1942 and 1943.
In 1943 he and
Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott were soldiers in the Pacific Island war
film Gung Ho![7]
Mitchum continued to find work as an extra and supporting actor in
numerous productions for various studios. After impressing director
Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy during the making of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Mitchum
signed a seven-year contract with RKO Radio Pictures. He was groomed
for B-Western stardom in a series of
Zane Grey

Zane Grey adaptations.[6]
Following the moderately successful Western Nevada, Mitchum was lent
from RKO to
United Artists

United Artists for
The Story of G.I. Joe

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). In the
film, he portrayed war-weary officer Bill Walker (based on Captain
Henry T. Waskow), who remains resolute despite the troubles he faces.
The film, which followed the life of an ordinary soldier through the
eyes of journalist
Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle (played by Burgess Meredith), became an
instant critical and commercial success. Shortly after making the
film, Mitchum was drafted into the
United States

United States Army, serving at Fort
MacArthur, California. At the 1946 Academy Awards, The Story of G.I.
Joe was nominated for four Oscars, including Mitchum's only nomination
for Best Supporting Actor. He finished the year with a Western (West
of the Pecos) and a story of returning Marine veterans (Till the End
of Time), before filming in a genre that came to define Mitchum's
career and screen persona: film noir.
Film noir[edit]
Mitchum was initially known for his work in film noir. His first foray
into the genre was a supporting role in the 1944
B-movie

B-movie When
Strangers Marry, about newlyweds and a New York City serial killer.
Undercurrent, another of Mitchum's early noir films, featured him
playing against type as a troubled, sensitive man entangled in the
affairs of his brother (Robert Taylor) and his brother's suspicious
wife (Katharine Hepburn). John Brahm's
The Locket

The Locket (1946) featured
Mitchum as bitter ex-boyfriend to Laraine Day's femme fatale. Raoul
Walsh's
Pursued

Pursued (1947) combined Western and noir styles, with
Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those
responsible for killing his family. Crossfire (also 1947) featured
Mitchum as a member of a group of
World War II

World War II soldiers, one of whom
kills a Jewish man. It featured themes of anti-Semitism and the
failings of military training. The film, directed by Edward Dmytryk,
earned five Academy Award nominations.[6]
Mitchum's famous role in
Out of the Past

Out of the Past (1947)
Following Crossfire, Mitchum starred in
Out of the Past

Out of the Past (also called
Build My Gallows High), directed by
Jacques Tourneur and featuring the
cinematography of Nicholas Musuraca. Mitchum played Jeff Markham, a
small-town gas-station owner and former investigator, whose unfinished
business with gambler Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) and femme fatale
Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer) comes back to haunt him.
On September 1, 1948, after a string of successful films for RKO,
Mitchum and actress
Lila Leeds

Lila Leeds were arrested for possession of
marijuana.[8] The arrest was the result of a sting operation designed
to capture other Hollywood partiers, as well, but Mitchum and Leeds
did not receive the tipoff. After serving a week at the county jail
(he described the experience to a reporter as being "like Palm
Springs, but without the riff-raff"), Mitchum spent 43 days (February
16 to March 30) at a Castaic, California, prison farm. Life
photographers were permitted to take photos of him mopping up in his
prison uniform.[9] The arrest inspired the exploitation film She
Shoulda Said No! (1949), which starred Leeds.[10] The conviction was
later overturned by the Los Angeles court and district attorney's
office on January 31, 1951, after being exposed as a setup.
Whether despite, or because of, Mitchum's troubles with the law and
his studio, his films released immediately after his arrest were
box-office hits.
Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger (1948) featured Mitchum in a
supporting role as a mountain man competing for the hand of Loretta
Young, the indentured servant and wife of William Holden. In the film
adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella
The Red Pony

The Red Pony (1949), he
appeared as a trusted cowhand to a ranching family. He returned to
film noir in
The Big Steal

The Big Steal (also 1949), where he joined
Jane Greer

Jane Greer in
an early
Don Siegel film.
Career in the 1950s and '60s[edit]
Mitchum with
Jane Russell

Jane Russell in
His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman (1951)
In
Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives (1950), Mitchum played a doctor who comes
between a mentally unbalanced
Faith Domergue

Faith Domergue and cuckolded Claude
Rains. The Racket was a noir remake of the early crime drama of the
same name and featured Mitchum as a police captain fighting corruption
in his precinct. The
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg film, Macao (1952), had
Mitchum as a victim of mistaken identity at an exotic resort casino,
playing opposite Jane Russell. Otto Preminger's Angel Face was the
first of three collaborations between Mitchum and British stage
actress Jean Simmons. In this film, she played an insane heiress who
plans to use young ambulance driver Mitchum to kill for her.
Mitchum was expelled from
Blood Alley

Blood Alley (1955), purportedly due to his
conduct, especially his reportedly having thrown the film's
transportation manager into San Francisco Bay. According to Sam
O'Steen's memoir Cut to the Chase, Mitchum showed up on-set after a
night of drinking and tore apart a studio office when they did not
have a car ready for him. Mitchum walked off the set of the third day
of filming Blood Alley, claiming he could not work with the director.
Because Mitchum was showing up late and behaving erratically, producer
John Wayne, after failing to obtain
Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart as a replacement,
took over the role himself.[11][12]
Following a series of conventional Westerns and films noir as well as
the
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe vehicle
River of No Return
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River of No Return (1954), Mitchum appeared
in Charles Laughton's only film as director: The Night of the Hunter
(1955). Based on a novel by Davis Grubb, the thriller starred Mitchum
as a monstrous criminal posing as a preacher to find money hidden by
his cellmate in the cellmate's home. His performance as Reverend Harry
Powell is considered by many to be one of the best of his
career.[13][14] Stanley Kramer's melodrama Not as a Stranger, also
released in 1955, was a box-office hit. The film starred Mitchum
against type, as an idealistic young doctor, who marries an older
nurse (Olivia de Havilland), only to question his morality many years
later. However, the film was not well received, with most critics
pointing out that Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, and
Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin were all too
old for their characters.
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland received top billing
over Mitchum and Sinatra.
Mitchum with
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr in
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
On March 8, 1955 Mitchum formed DRM (Dorothy and Robert Mitchum)
Productions to produce five films for United Artists; four films were
produced.[15] The first film was Bandido (1956). Following a
succession of average Westerns and the poorly received Foreign
Intrigue (1956), Mitchum starred in the first of three films with
Deborah Kerr. The
John Huston

John Huston war drama Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison,
starred Mitchum as a Marine corporal shipwrecked on a Pacific Island
with a nun, Sister Angela (Deborah Kerr), as his sole companion. In
this character study, they struggle to resist the elements and the
invading Japanese army. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards,
including Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. For his role,
Mitchum was nominated for a
BAFTA Award

BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor. In the
WWII submarine classic
The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below (1956), Mitchum gave a strong
performance as U.S. Naval Lieutenant Commander Murrell, the captain of
a U.S. Navy destroyer who matches wits with a German U-boat captain
Curt Jurgens, who starred with Mitchum again in the legendary 1962
movie The Longest Day. The film won an Oscar for
Special

Special Effects.[16]
Thunder Road (1958), the second DRM Production, was loosely based on
an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have
fatally crashed on
Kingston Pike

Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, somewhere
between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road. According to
Metro Pulse writer
Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed
by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum. He starred in the
movie, and also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is
rumored to have directed much of the film. Mitchum also co-wrote (with
Don Raye) the theme song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road". He returned to
Mexico for The Wonderful Country (1959) and
Ireland

Ireland for A Terrible
Beauty/The Night Fighters for the last of his DRM Productions.[17]
Mitchum as
Max Cady

Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962)
Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann film, The Sundowners
(1960), where they played husband and wife struggling in
Depression-era Australia. Opposite Mitchum, Kerr was nominated for yet
another Academy Award for Best Actress, while the film was nominated
for a total of five Oscars.
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum was awarded that year's
National Board of Review

National Board of Review award for Best Actor for his performance. The
award also recognized his superior performance in the Vincente
Minnelli Western drama Home from the Hill (also 1960). He was teamed
with former leading ladies Kerr and Simmons, as well as Cary Grant,
for the
Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen comedy
The Grass Is Greener

The Grass Is Greener the same year.
Mitchum's performance as the menacing rapist
Max Cady

Max Cady in Cape Fear
(1962) brought him even more attention and furthered his renown for
playing cool, predatory characters. The 1960s were marked by a number
of lesser films and missed opportunities. Among the films Mitchum
passed on during the decade were John Huston's The Misfits (the last
film of its stars
Clark Gable

Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe), the Academy
Award–winning Patton, and Dirty Harry. The most notable of his films
in the decade included the war epics The Longest Day (1962) and Anzio
(1968), the
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine comedy-musical
What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go! (1964),
and the
Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks Western El Dorado (1967), a remake of Rio Bravo
(1959), in which Mitchum took over Dean Martin's role of the drunk who
comes to the aid of John Wayne.[6] He teamed with Martin for the 1968
Western 5 Card Stud, playing a homicidal preacher.
Music[edit]
Album cover of Mitchum's calypso record, Calypso — is like
so ...
One of the lesser-known aspects of Mitchum's career was his forays
into music, both as singer and composer. Critic Greg Adams writes,
"Unlike most celebrity vocalists,
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum actually had musical
talent."[18] Mitchum's voice was often used instead of that of a
professional singer when his character sang in his films. Notable
productions featuring Mitchum's own singing voice included Rachel and
the Stranger, River of No Return, and The Night of the Hunter. After
hearing traditional calypso music and meeting artists such as Mighty
Sparrow and
Lord Invader
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Lord Invader while filming
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in
the Caribbean islands of Tobago, he recorded Calypso – is like
so ... in March 1957. On the album, released through Capitol
Records, he emulated the calypso sound and style, even adopting the
style's unique pronunciations and slang. A year later, he recorded a
song he had written for Thunder Road, titled "The Ballad of Thunder
Road". The country-style song became a modest hit for Mitchum,
reaching number 69 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. The song was
included as a bonus track on a successful reissue of Calypso ...
and helped market the film to a wider audience.[6]
Although Mitchum continued to use his singing voice in his film work,
he waited until 1967 to record his follow-up record, That Man, Robert
Mitchum, Sings. The album, released by Nashville-based Monument
Records, took him further into country music, and featured songs
similar to "The Ballad of Thunder Road". "Little Old Wine Drinker Me",
the first single, was a top-10 hit at country radio, reaching number
nine there, and crossed over onto mainstream radio, where it peaked at
number 96. Its follow-up, "You Deserve Each Other", also charted on
the Billboard Country Singles chart. He sang the title song to the
Western Young Billy Young, made in 1969. Mitchum co-wrote and composed
the music for an oratorio which was produced by
Orson Welles

Orson Welles at the
Hollywood Bowl.
Albums[edit]
Year
Album
U.S. Country
Label
1957
Calypso — is like so ...
—
Capitol
1967
That Man Robert Mitchum ... Sings
35
Monument
Singles[edit]
Year
Single
Chart positions
Album
U.S. Country
U.S.
1958
"The Ballad of Thunder Road"
—
62
That Man Robert Mitchum ... Sings
1962
"The Ballad of Thunder Road" (re-release)
—
65
1967
"Little Old Wine Drinker Me"
9
96
"You Deserve Each Other"
55
—
Later years[edit]
Mitchum in October 1976
Mitchum made a departure from his typical screen persona with the 1970
David Lean

David Lean film Ryan's Daughter, in which he starred as Charles
Shaughnessy, a mild-mannered schoolmaster in World War I-era Ireland.
Though the film was nominated for four
Academy Awards

Academy Awards (winning two)
and Mitchum was much publicized as a contender for a Best Actor
nomination, he was not nominated.
George C. Scott

George C. Scott won the award for
his performance in Patton, a project Mitchum had rejected for Ryan's
Daughter. The 1970s featured Mitchum in a number of well-received
crime dramas.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) had the actor playing
an aging
Boston

Boston hoodlum caught between the Feds and his criminal
friends. Sydney Pollack's
The Yakuza

The Yakuza (1974) transplanted the typical
film noir story arc to the Japanese underworld. He also appeared in
1976's Midway about an epic 1942
World War II

World War II battle. Mitchum's stint
as an aging
Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe in the
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler adaptation
Farewell, My Lovely (1975) was sufficiently well received by audiences
and critics for him to reprise the role in 1978's The Big Sleep.
In 1982, Mitchum went on location to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to play
Coach Delaney in the film adaptation of playwright/actor Jason
Miller's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season.
At the premiere for That Championship Season, Mitchum, while
intoxicated, assaulted a female reporter and threw a basketball that
he was holding (a prop from the film) at a female photographer from
Time magazine, knocking two of her teeth out.[19][20] She sued him for
$30 million for damages.[20] He eventually paid her his salary from
the film.[19]
That Championship Season may have indirectly led to another debacle
for Mitchum several months later. In a February 1983 Esquire
interview, he made several racist, anti-Semitic and sexist statements,
including, when asked if the Holocaust occurred, responded "so the
Jews say."[19][21] Following the widespread negative response, he
apologized a month later, saying that his statements were "prankish"
and "foreign to my principle." He claimed that the problem began when
he recited a racist monologue from his role in That Championship
Season, but the writer had misunderstood the words to be his. Mitchum,
who claimed that he had only reluctantly agreed to the interview, then
decided to "string... along" the writer with even more incendiary
statements.[21]
Mitchum expanded to television work with the 1983 miniseries The Winds
of War. The big-budget
Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk story aired on ABC, starring
Mitchum as naval officer "Pug" Henry and
Victoria Tennant

Victoria Tennant as Pamela
Tudsbury, and examined the events leading up to America's involvement
in World War II.
He played George Hazard's father-in-law in the 1985 miniseries North
and South, which also aired on ABC. He followed it in 1988 with War
and Remembrance.[6]
Mitchum at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
Mitchum starred opposite
Wilford Brimley

Wilford Brimley in the 1986 made-for-TV movie
Thompson's Run. A hardened con (Mitchum), being transferred from a
federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence
as a habitual criminal, is freed at gunpoint by his niece (played by
Kathleen York). The cop (Brimley) who was transferring him, and has
been the con's lifelong friend and adversary for over 30 years, vows
to catch the twosome. In 1987, Mitchum was the guest-host on Saturday
Night Live, where he played private eye
Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe for the last
time in the parody sketch, "Death Be Not Deadly". The show ran a short
comedy film he made (written and directed by his daughter, Trina)
called Out of Gas, a mock sequel to Out of the Past. (Jane Greer
reprised her role from the original film.) He also was in Bill
Murray's 1988 comedy film, Scrooged.
In 1991, Mitchum was given a lifetime achievement award from the
National Board of Review

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Cecil B. DeMille
Award from the
Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards in 1992.[6]
Mitchum continued to act in films until the mid-1990s, such as Jim
Jarmusch's Dead Man, and he narrated the Western Tombstone. He also
appeared, in contrast to his role as the antagonist in the original,
as a protagonist police detective in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape
Fear, but the actor gradually slowed his workload. His last film
appearance was a small but pivotal role in the television biopic,
James Dean: Race with Destiny, playing Giant director George Stevens.
His last starring role was in the 1995 Norwegian movie Pakten.[6]
Death[edit]
A lifelong heavy smoker, Mitchum died on July 1, 1997, in Santa
Barbara, California, due to complications of lung cancer and
emphysema. He was about five weeks shy of his 80th birthday. His body
was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. He was survived by his
wife of 57 years, Dorothy Mitchum (died April 12, 2014, Santa Barbara,
California, aged 94),[22] and actor sons, James Mitchum, Christopher
Mitchum, and writer-daughter, Petrine Day Mitchum. His grandchildren,
Bentley Mitchum and Carrie Mitchum, are actors, as was his younger
brother, John, who died in 2001. Another grandson, Kian, is a
successful model.[23] Cappy Van Dien, Grace Van Dien, and Wyatt
Mitchum Cardone are the children of Carrie Mitchum, the grandchildren
of Christopher Mitchum, and the great grandchildren of Robert and
Dorothy Mitchum.
Legacy[edit]
Estoria Street Tunnel mural of Mitchum in Atlanta, Georgia
Mitchum is regarded by some critics as one of the finest actors of the
Golden Age of Hollywood.
Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert called him "the soul of film
noir." Mitchum, however, was self-effacing; in an interview with Barry
Norman for the
BBC

BBC about his contribution to cinema, Mitchum stopped
Norman in mid flow and in his typical nonchalant style, said, "Look, I
have two kinds of acting. One on a horse and one off a horse. That's
it." He had also succeeded in annoying some of his fellow actors by
voicing his puzzlement at those who viewed the profession as
challenging and hard work. He is quoted as having said in the Barry
Norman interview that acting was actually very simple and that his job
was to "show up on time, know his lines, hit his marks, and go
home".[24][25] Mitchum had a habit of marking most of his appearances
in the script with the letters "n.a.r.", which meant "no action
required", which critic Dirk Baecker has construed as Mitchum's way of
reminding himself to experience the world of the story without acting
upon it.[26]
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars lists Mitchum as the 23rd-greatest male
star of classic Hollywood cinema. AFI also recognized his performance
as the menacing rapist
Max Cady

Max Cady and
Reverend Harry Powell as the 28th
and 29th greatest screen villains, respectively, of all time as part
of AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains. He provided the voice of
the famous
American Beef Council

American Beef Council commercials that touted
"Beef ... it's what's for dinner", from 1992 until his death. A
"Mitchum's Steakhouse" is in Trappe, Maryland,[27] where Mitchum and
his family lived from 1959 to 1965.
Documentary[edit]
Gregory Monro (Director) (2017). James Stewart/Robert Mitchum :
The Two Faces of America (Motion picture).
Filmography[edit]
Main article:
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum filmography
References[edit]
Notes
^ "Greatest Film Star Legends." filmsite.org. Retrieved: March 20,
2015.
^ "The religious affiliation of Robert Mitchum: Great American actor."
Famous Methodists, June 24, 2005.
^
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^ Server 2001, pp. 3–18.
^ a b Davidson, Bill (August 25, 1962). "The Many Moods of Robert
Mitchum". Saturday Evening Post. Indianapolis, Indiana USA: Curtis
Publishing Company: 58–70. 0048-9239. Of his clash with the law at
Savannah [Georgia], Mitchum told me, 'I had hopped a freight train
with about seventeen other kids and headed South. In my pocket I had
thirty-eight dollars — all I had in the world. When we reached
Savannah, I was cold and hungry. So I dropped off to get something to
eat. The big fuzz grabbed me. "For what?" I asked. He grinned.
"Vagrancy — we don't like Yankee bums around here." When I told him
I had thirty-eight dollars, he just called me a so-and-so wise guy and
belted me with his club and ran me in.' article pdf, publisher's
website
^ a b c d e f g h i "Biography: Robert Mitchum." Turner Classic
Movies. Retrieved: March 20, 2015.
^ Bugs Bunny-War Bonds, 1943, retrieved 2017-09-21
^ "
Robert Mitchum
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Robert Mitchum Arrested with Two Movie Actresses in Marijuana Party
Raid." St. Petersburg Times, September 2, 1948.
^ "Mitchum images." "sprintmail.com. Retrieved: October 10, 2012.
^ Mitchum's upcoming film
Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger was rushed to
completion to take advantage of the publicity surrounding the arrest.
Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger at the
American Film Institute
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American Film Institute Catalog
^ O'Steen 2002, p. 11.
^ Olson and Roberts 1997, p. 417.
^ Ramon, Alexander. "Part 2: The Dark Side: 100 Essential Male Film
Performances." popmatters.com. Retrieved: December 21, 2014.
^ Ebert, Roger. "Great Movie: The Night of the Hunter." Chicago
Sun-Times, April 20, 2010.
^ Roberts 2000, p. 208.
^ The Longest Day (1962)
Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies Retrieved: March 20,
2015.
^ "The Night Fighters". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: March 20,
2015.
^ Adams, Greg. "Robert Mitchum: That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings."
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