Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum | |
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Born | Robert Charles Durman Mitchum August 6, 1917 Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | July 1, 1997 | (aged 79)
Resting place | Cremated; Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1942–1997 |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse |
Dorothy Spence
(m. 1940) |
Children | 3, including James and Christopher Mitchum |
Relatives |
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Signature | |
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He is known for his
Mitchum rose to prominence with an
Film critic Roger Ebert called Mitchum his favorite movie star and the soul of film noir: "With his deep, laconic voice and his long face and those famous weary eyes, he was the kind of guy you'd picture in a saloon at closing time, waiting for someone to walk in through the door and break his heart."[2] David Thomson wrote: "Since the war, no American actor has made more first-class films, in so many different moods."[3]
Early life
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was born in
When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.[15] She married Lieutenant Hugh "The Major" Cunningham Morris, a former Royal Naval Reserve officer. They had a daughter, Carol Morris, born c. 1928 on the family farm in Delaware.[16][17][18]
As a child, Mitchum was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief.[19][20] In 1926, his mother sent him and his younger brother to live with her parents on a farm near Woodside, Delaware.[4][21] He attended Felton High School,[22] where he was expelled for mischief.[23] During his years at the Felton school, he ran away from home for the first time at age 11.[24][25]
In 1929, Mitchum and his younger brother were sent to Philadelphia to live with their older sister, Julie,[26] who had started her career as a performer in vaudeville acts on the East Coast.[27] The following year, he and the rest of the family moved to New York with Julie, sharing an apartment in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen with her and her husband.[26][28] Mitchum attended Haaren High School[29] but was eventually expelled.[30]
Mitchum left home at age 14
Acting career
Getting established
In the mid-1930s Julie Mitchum moved to the West Coast in the hope of acting in movies, and the rest of the Mitchum family soon followed her to Long Beach, California. Robert arrived in 1936. During this time, Mitchum worked as a ghostwriter for astrologer Carroll Righter. Julie persuaded him to join the local theater guild with her. At The Players Guild of Long Beach, Mitchum worked 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 to marry Dorothy Spence, and they moved back to California. He gave up his artistic pursuits after the birth of their first child,
He then sought work as a film actor, performing initially as an extra and in small speaking parts. His agent got him an interview with Harry Sherman, the producer of Paramount's
After impressing director
Film noir
Mitchum ultimately became best known for his work in
Following Crossfire, Mitchum starred in Out of the Past (also called Build My Gallows High),[50] widely regarded as one of the greatest of all films noir.[51][52][53][54] Directed by Jacques Tourneur and featuring the cinematography of Nicholas Musuraca, the picture featured Mitchum in his best-known noir role, 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.[50]
On September 1, 1948, after a string of successful films for RKO, Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds were arrested for possession of marijuana,[55] part of a sting operation designed to capture other Hollywood partiers as well. After serving a week in the county jail (he described the experience to a reporter as being "like Palm Springs, but without the riff-raff" - Tonight Show with Johnny Carson April 7, 1978), 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.[56] The arrest inspired the exploitation film She Shoulda Said No! (1949), which starred Leeds. Mitchum's conviction was later overturned by the Los Angeles court and district attorney's office on January 31, 1951, after being exposed as a setup.[57][58]
Despite Mitchum's legal troubles, his popularity was not harmed and films released immediately after his arrest were box-office hits. Mitchum's upcoming film Rachel and the Stranger was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity surrounding the arrest.[59] It featured Mitchum in a supporting role as a mountain man competing for the hand of Rachel (Loretta Young), the indentured servant and wife of recently widower David Harvey (William Holden).[60] In the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella The Red Pony (1949), he appeared as a trusted cowhand to a ranching family.[61] He returned to film noir in a reunion later that year with Jane Greer in The Big Steal (also 1949), an early Don Siegel film.[62]
By the end of the 1940s, Mitchum had become RKO's biggest star.[63][64]
Mainstream stardom in the 1950s and 1960s
In the noir
Mitchum was fired from Blood Alley (1955) over his conduct, 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. He walked off the set of the third day of filming, 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 as a replacement, took over the role himself.[70][71]
Following a series of conventional Westerns and film noirs, as well as the
On March 8, 1955, Mitchum formed DRM (Dorothy and Robert Mitchum) Productions to produce five films for
Thunder Road (1958), the second DRM Production,[80] was loosely based on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have fatally crashed on 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.[90][additional citation(s) needed] He starred, produced, co-wrote the screenplay,[91] and is rumored to have directed much of the film.[92][90] It costars his son James as his younger brother.[91][note 4] Mitchum also co-wrote (with Don Raye) the theme song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road."[99][100][101]
Mitchum returned to Mexico for The Wonderful Country (1959) with Julie London,[102] and Ireland for A Terrible Beauty/The Night Fighters for the last of his DRM Productions.[103][104]
Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the
Mitchum's performance as the menacing rapist
Mitchum turned down The Wild Bunch partially because he did not want to work with Sam Peckinpah.[113]
1970s
Mitchum made a departure from his typical screen persona with the 1970
The 1970s featured Mitchum mainly in crime dramas, to mixed result. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) had the actor playing an aging Boston hoodlum caught between the Feds and his criminal friends.[121] Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza (1974) transplanted the typical film noir story arc to the Japanese underworld.[122] Mitchum's stint as an aging Philip Marlowe in the Raymond Chandler adaptation Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (a remake of 1944's Murder, My Sweet) was sufficiently well received by audiences and critics[123] for him to reprise the role in 1978's The Big Sleep, a remake of the 1946 film of the same title.[124]
Mitchum also appeared in 1976's Midway about the crucial World War II naval battle.[125]
Later work
In 1982, Mitchum played Coach Delaney in the film adaptation of playwright/actor Jason Miller's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season.[126]
Mitchum starred in the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War, based on a Herman Wouk book of the same title. The big-budget production aired on ABC, starring Mitchum as naval officer "Pug" Henry and Victoria Tennant as Pamela Tudsbury, and examined the events leading up to America's involvement in World War II. It was watched by 140 million people over seven days and became the most-watched miniseries up to that point.[127][128] He returned to the role in the 1988 sequel miniseries War and Remembrance,[41] which continued the story through the end of the war.[129]
In 1984, Mitchum entered the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California, for treatment of alcoholism.[130]
He played George Hazard's father-in-law in the 1985 miniseries North and South, which also aired on ABC.[131]
Mitchum starred opposite Wilford Brimley in the 1986 made-for-TV movie Thompson's Run.[132]
In 1987, Mitchum was the guest host on Saturday Night Live, where he played private eye 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, Petrine) called Out of Gas, a mock sequel to Out of the Past (Jane Greer reprised her role from the original film).[133][134] He also was in Richard Donner's 1988 comedy Scrooged.[135]
In 1991, Mitchum was set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the
Mitchum continued to appear in films until the mid-1990s, such as
Music
One of the lesser-known aspects of Mitchum's career was his foray into music as a singer. Critic Greg Adams writes, "Unlike most celebrity vocalists, Robert Mitchum actually had musical talent."[144] Frank Sinatra said of Mitchum, "For anyone who's not a professional musician, he knows more about music, from Bach to Brubeck, than any man I've ever known."[145]
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 Pursued, Rachel and the Stranger, The Night of the Hunter, and The Sundowners.[146] He sang the title song to the Western Young Billy Young, made in 1969.[147]
Mitchum recorded two albums. After hearing traditional calypso music and meeting artists such as Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader while filming Fire Down Below and 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.[146][148][149][150] A year later, he recorded "The Ballad of Thunder Road", a song he had written for the film Thunder Road.[99] The country-style song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching number 62 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in September 1958.[99][100] The song was included as a bonus track on a successful reissue of Calypso ...[151][150] and helped market the film to a wider audience.[citation needed]
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
Albums
Year | Album | U.S. Country | Label |
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1957 | Calypso—is like so ... | — | Capitol |
1967 | That Man Robert Mitchum ... Sings | 35[citation needed] | Monument |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |
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U.S. Country | U.S. | |||
1958 | "The Ballad of Thunder Road" | — | 62[99] | That Man Robert Mitchum ... Sings |
1962 | "The Ballad of Thunder Road" (re-release) | — | 65[99] | |
1967 | "Little Old Wine Drinker Me" | 9[154] | 96[154] | |
"You Deserve Each Other" | 55[154] | — |
Personal life
Marriage and family
Mitchum married his childhood sweetheart, Dorothy Spence, whom he met when he was 16 and she was 14, in Dover, Delaware, on March 16, 1940.[156][38] The couple had three children: sons, James (born May 8, 1941)[157] and Christopher (born October 16, 1943),[158] both actors; and a daughter, Petrine (born March 3, 1952),[159][160] a writer.[156][38]
Despite his reported affairs with other women, including actresses Lucille Ball,[161] Ava Gardner,[162] Jean Simmons,[163] Shirley MacLaine,[164] and Sarah Miles,[165] Mitchum and wife Dorothy remained together until his death in 1997.[156][38] He told journalist Don Short in a 1977 interview: "Not as though there has been anyone else in my life except Dorothy. There's not one of 'em—and I've met the best of 'em—worth lighting a candle for alongside her."[166]
Mitchum's grandson Bentley Mitchum is an actor.[167] His great-granddaughter Grace Van Dien is an actress.[167][168]
Friendships
Mitchum's close friends included Jane Russell, his neighbor in Santa Barbara, California;[169] and Deborah Kerr, his favorite costar.[170]
Political views
Mitchum was a Republican who campaigned for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election,[171][172] and considered him to be the only honest politician.[citation needed] According to a 2012 interview with his son Chris, conducted by Breitbart News, Mitchum also supported Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1988.[173]
Death
A lifelong heavy smoker, Mitchum died in his sleep at 5 a.m. on July 1, 1997, at his home in Santa Barbara, California, from complications of lung cancer and emphysema.[10][156][174] His wife of 57 years, Dorothy, was by his side.[174][175]
Mitchum's body was cremated and, on July 6, his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off the coast near his home.[176][177] The private ceremony was attended by only his family members and his longtime friend Jane Russell.[177][169] There is a cenotaph to him in his wife's family plot at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Camden, Delaware.[178] Dorothy died in 2014 (May 2, 1919, Camden, Delaware – April 12, 2014, Santa Barbara, California), aged 94.[38][179] In accordance with their wishes, her ashes were also scattered at sea so that they could be symbolically reunited at Easter Island.[179][180]
Controversies
At the 1982 premiere for That Championship Season, an intoxicated Mitchum assaulted a female reporter and threw a basketball that he was holding (a prop from the film) at a female photographer from Time magazine, causing a neck injury and knocking out two of her teeth.[181][182] She sued him for $30 million in damages.[182] The suit eventually "cost him his salary from the film".[181]
Mitchum's role in That Championship Season may have indirectly contributed to another incident several months later. In a February 1983 Esquire interview, he made statements that some construed as racist, antisemitic, and sexist. When asked if the Holocaust had occurred, Mitchum responded, "so the Jews say."[181][183] 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 had begun when he recited a purportedly racist monologue from his role in That Championship Season and the reporter believed that the words were Mitchum's. He claimed that he had only reluctantly agreed to the interview and then proceeded to "string... along" the reporter with his statements.[183]
Reception, acting style, and legacy
Mitchum is regarded by some critics as one of the finest actors of the
Robert Mitchum was my favorite movie star because he represented, for me, the impenetrable mystery of the movies. He knew the inside story. With his deep, laconic voice and his long face and those famous weary eyes, he was the kind of guy you'd picture in a saloon at closing time, waiting for someone to walk in through the door and break his heart.
Mitchum was the soul of film noir.[2]
Mitchum, however, was self-effacing; in an interview with
Director Robert Wise recalled that during the shooting of Blood on the Moon, Mitchum would mark his script with the letters "NAR," which meant "no action required." He told Wise that he did not need a line and would give Wise a look instead.[193] Dismissive of Method acting, when asked by George Peppard if he had studied it during filming of Home from the Hill, Mitchum jokingly responded that he had studied the "Smirnoff method".[194]
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
—Mitchum's views on acting.[195]
Mitchum's subtle and understated acting style sometimes garnered him criticism of sleepwalking through his performances in the early stage of his career.
Mitchum had a solid reputation among the directors who worked with him.
Mitchum's close friend and co-star on four movies, Deborah Kerr, commented on his acting abilities: "He makes acting seem like it's absolutely real. There's no acting to it at all. It's like falling off a log for him."[citation needed] Jane Greer, his co-star in Out of the Past and The Big Steal, said of him: "Bob would never be caught acting. He just is."[208]
Robert De Niro,[citation needed] Clint Eastwood,[209] Michael Madsen,[210] and Mark Rylance[211] have cited Mitchum as one of their favorite actors.
For his contribution to the film industry, Mitchum has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard.[213] He was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2013.[214]
Mitchum provided the voice of the famous
A "Mitchum's Steakhouse" operated in Trappe, Maryland,[217] where Mitchum and his family lived from 1959 to 1965.[218]
On December 10, 2022, a historical marker commemorating Mitchum was unveiled in his father's hometown of Lane, South Carolina.[219]
Filmography
Notes
- ^ According to Mitchum, his Native American ancestors came from South Carolina and both his paternal grandparents were half-Blackfoot Indian.[8][9]
- ^ John later also became an actor.[14]
- Saturday Evening Post interview: "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."[19]
- ^ According to Mitchum[93] and his son James,[94] Elvis Presley was to have played the lead, but his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, wanted him to focus on musicals, and Mitchum went on to star himself. However, some other sources say it was the part of Mitchum's character's brother that Elvis was considered for.[95][96][97][90] Elvis' friend George Klein recalled that Mitchum, who wrote the film's story, thought he and Elvis could do the film together, and Elvis was very excited about it. (Klein did not specify which role was intended for Elvis.)[98]
- ^ Mitchum had been living in Santa Barbara, California since 1978[137] and the ceremony was to be held in New York. The award eventually went to Lauren Bacall instead.[136]
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General and cited sources
Books
- Capua, Michelangelo (2022). Jean Simmons: Her Life and Career. Jefferson, North Carolina: ISBN 978-1-4766-8224-2.
- Clavin, Tom (2010). That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas. Chicago, Illinois: ISBN 978-1-55652-821-7.
- Eells, George (1984). Robert Mitchum. New York and Toronto: ISBN 978-0-531-09836-3.
- ISBN 978-0-394-40465-3.
- Jewell, Richard B.; Harbin, Vernon (1982). The RKO Story. New York: ISBN 978-0-517-54656-7.
- ISBN 978-0-307-45275-7.
- ISBN 978-0-06-244051-8.
- Marill, Alvin H. (1978). Robert Mitchum on the Screen. South Brunswick and New York: ISBN 978-0-498-01847-3.
- ISBN 978-0-8131-4262-3.
- ISBN 978-0-385-09522-8.
- ISBN 978-0-940064-07-2.
- Olson, James; Roberts, Randy (1997). John Wayne: American. Lincoln, Nebraska: ISBN 978-0-8032-8970-3.
- ISBN 978-0-941188-37-1.
- ISBN 978-0-520-08233-5.
- Roberts, Jerry, ed. (2000). Mitchum: In His Own Words. New York: ISBN 978-0-87910-292-0.
- Roberts, Jerry (1992). Robert Mitchum: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: ISBN 978-0-313-27547-0.
- ISBN 978-0-679-42974-6.
- ISBN 978-0-312-28543-2.
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- ISBN 978-0-374-14553-8.
- Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4.
Documentaries
- Feldman, Gene, and Suzette Winter (Directors) (1991). Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (TV Movie). US: Wombat Productions.
- Monro, Gregory (Director) (2017). James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (TV Movie). France and US: TS Productions.
- Benhamou, Stéphane (Director) (2018). Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (TV Movie) (in French). France: Arte.
- Weber, Bruce (Director) (2018). Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (Movie). US.
Interviews
- Mitchum, Robert (April 29, 1971). "The Dick Cavett Show: Robert Mitchum" (Interview). Interviewed by Dick Cavett. American Broadcasting Company.
- Mitchum, Robert; Russell, Jane (1996). "Private Screenings: Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell" (Interview). Interviewed by Robert Osborne. Turner Classic Movies.
External links
- Robert Mitchum at IMDb
- Robert Mitchum at the TCM Movie Database
- Photographs and literature
- The short film Staff Film Report 66-12A (1966) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.