Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"

Lee Server

St. Martin's Press, Mar 6, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 608 pages

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.

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User Review  - GoldGato - Goodreads

He was a poet with an ax. Beneath this deity of indifference beat the heart of a lyricist who used the adventures of his early life to become one of the last Golden Age film stars. Masculine. Tough ...

Review: Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"

User Review  - Michael Arden - Goodreads

You'd really have to be a big fan of old movies to enjoy this biography of Robert Mitchum, the prototype of the cool, detached antihero on screen. He was a brilliant natural actor who could totally ...

About the author

Lee Server is the author of the critically acclaimed Danger Is My Business; Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground; Over My Dead Body; and other works on cinema history and popular culture.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"
• Author: Lee Server
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0312285434, 9780312285432
• Length: 608 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Performing Arts / Film & Video / General