
Selznick, then bought by Howard Hughes 1945-starring role in G.I. Career: Worked at a variety of jobs during the 1930s, including heavyweight boxing joined Long Beach Civic Theatre as stage hand and actor in late 1930s, and worked for Lockheed Aircraft in early 1940s 1943-film debut in Hoppy Serves a Writ 1944-contract with RKO, later shared with David O. Family: Married Dorothy Spence, 1940, three children, including the actor Christopher. Education: Attended Haaren High School, New York, left at age 14. Born: Robert Charles Duran Mitchum in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 6 August 1917. | Motion picture actors and actresses - United States - Biography.Nationality: American. Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous."-BOOK JACKET. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever). "Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself.

Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screen's first hipster antihero - before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood - the inventor of big-screen cool.".

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"One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecendented half-century - the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter Heaven Knows Mr. Robert Mitchum : "baby, I don't care" / Lee Server Book Bib ID
