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He was accustomed to, you know, start the camera, expose 120 feet of film and tell somebody to move the beer bottle half an inch clockwise. He does the same thing with people." Mitchum inhaled, exhaled slowly, leaned forward to see into his outer office. "Bring me a Miltown, sweetheart," he said to his secretary.
Jul 2, 1997 · July 1, 1997 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Robert Mitchum, 79, the swaggering, sleepy-eyed actor with slick black hair and a classically cleft chin who was among the last of the giants of Hollywood's golden ...
Dec 13, 2023 · Mitchum tends to be overlooked and ranked just outside the pantheon of the screen’s greatest movie stars from the studio system era. In its ranking of the 25 greatest male screen legends of the 20th century, the American Film Institute placed Mitchum at 23, just behind Sidney Poitier and ahead of Edward G. Robinson.
Consumately masculine and forceful, Robert Mitchum, seemed to be under the radar and almost terminally underrated his entire wonderful, 50 year acting career. Nevertheless, the performances of Mitchum were consistently excellent, and he produced many indelible screen characterizations over his marvelous career. Here are 25 of his best.
Jul 2, 1997 · Robert Mitchum was one of the greatest of all Hollywood actors - a paradoxical claim if one elected to listen to the man himself. "It sure beats working," he would remark of his chosen vocation ...
Mar 15, 1973 · By Grover Lewis. March 15, 1973. Robert Mitchum sitting in car in a scene from the film 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' in 1973. Paramount/Getty. After 20 years of playing a comic strip character ...
