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St Martin's Press Robert Mitchum by Lee Server
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 Unprecedented Half-Century, The Cool, Sleepy-Eyed Star Of Such Classics As The Night Of The Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; And The Winds Of War. 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. 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. 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) Ranging Over His Seventy-Nine Years Of Hard Living. Written With Great Style, And Vividly Detailed, This Is An Intimate, Comprehensive Portrait Of An Amazing Life, Comic, Tragic, Daring, And Outrageous.