Robert Mitchum

A Bio-Bibliography

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by Jerry Roberts

Type

Biographies

Subject

Actor > Robert Mitchum

Keywords

Robert Mitchum

Publishing date

1992

Publisher

Greenwood

Collection

Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 448 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-313-27547-5
978-0-313-27547-0

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Book Presentation:
Robert Mitchum's bad boy reputation that colors his public profile has been both earned and undeserved. Jerry Roberts discusses the actor's career, his cult status, his under-appreciated talent, his forgotten films, and his nonchalance.This book catalogues previously published information on Mitchum, taking a full measure of the actor and describing the events that occasionally brought him more notoriety than his movies. The book's biographical essay and annotated filmography scrutinize his performing style.

Many yarns about Mitchum have been repeated and modified into legend. But much of the Mitchum myth has been just that: myth. The final word here on various rumors and stories comes from the confirmations, clarifications and corrections made by Robert Mitchum during an interview with the author and in correspondence with several members of the Mitchum family. As with the other Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts, this biographical essay is followed by a chronology, annotated filmography, television, stage, recording and writing credits, list of awards, annotated bibliography listing 1,300 entries and a comprehensive index.

About the Author:
Jerry Roberts was film critic for 11 years for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers (Daily Breeze, Santa Monica Evening Outlook) and a film columnist for the former San Diego-based Copley News Service and the former Redmond, WA, based-Cinemania.com. He was a film-industry writer for two decades for Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the former DGA Magazine. He is the author of 19 books, including Mitchum: In His Own Words (2000), The Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors (2009), and The Complete History of American Film Criticism (2010). He has been vice president, secretary, and programming chair of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

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