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Dorothy Spence Mitchum, the wife of actor Robert Mitchum for 57 years, died Saturday at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara. She was 94. She met Mitchum, who was two years her elder, in...
Apr 16, 2014 · Dorothy Clements Spence Mitchum (above, with husband Robert), a writer and the widow of the late actor Robert Mitchum, died at Serenity House hospice in Santa Barbara, Calif., on April 12....
He married Dorothy Spence in March 1940. The couple had three children. Robert Mitchum was never faithful to his wife and had numerous affairs throughout his marriage. Yet the couple remained together for almost 60 years until his death in 1997.
They had a daughter, Carol Morris, born c. 1928 on the family farm in Delaware. [15] As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief. [16] [17] In 1926, his mother sent him and his younger brother to live with her parents on a farm near Woodside, Delaware.
His sons James Mitchum and Christopher Mitchum are actors, as is his grandson Bentley Mitchum. His last film was James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997) with Casper Van Dien as James Dean.
Apr 17, 2014 · Known for her grace, great beauty, devilish wit and love of words, roses, and animals – especially dogs, Dorothy lived a remarkable life, most famously as the wife of Robert (Charles) Mitchum whom she married in the cabbage-scented kitchen of a Methodist parson in Dover, Delaware, on March 16, 1940.
Apr 15, 2014 · The Mitchums were married in the kitchen of a Methodist parson in Dover, Del., on March 16, 1940, and were together until the actor’s death from lung cancer and emphysema on July 1, 1997. He was...
