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Robert Mitchum : a biography / George Eells.
- Title
- Robert Mitchum : a biography / George Eells.
- Author
- Eells, George
- Publication
- New York : F. Watts, 1984.
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Text | Request in advance | PN2287.M648 E33 1984 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 328 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book is a competent run through of the sleepy-eyed film star's career--heavy on anecdotes about his brawling, boozing, rebellious ways. Raised by his determined, plucky widowed mother Ann, Bob was later sent--with sister Julie--to his grandfather's farm in Delaware, while his mother worked and remarried. Some of his family and friends feel these traumas produced a feeling of abandonment and loneliness that has haunted him all his life. Mitchum adopted a crude, insolent stance, and became a freewheeling rover--but did wed quiet, lovely young Dorothy, to whom he's been married ever since. A variety of Hollywood jobs led to small parts in Hopalong Cassidy films, then on to "The Story of G.I. Joe." His snow-balling career was threatened, but not really impeded, by his arrest and conviction on a 1948 pot-smoking charge. After feuding with and leaving RKO, his stardom soared in the 1950s, with offbeat winner "Night of the Hunter"; wife Dorothy's solid loyalty outlasted a serious affair with Shirley MacLaine; and "Ryan's Daughter" paved the way for his middle-aged career. At 67, the end isn't in sight for this film noir star with the beguiling bedroom eyes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Robert Mitchum filmography, compiled by Phil Boroff": p. [295]-319.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0531098362
- LCCN
- ^^^83026111^
- OCLC
- 10299320
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library