From the very beginning, Robert Mitchum played with extraordinary naturalness, going against the current trend of Actors Studio fashion. His height, his phlegm, his irony make him a sex symbol. The testimony of his son Christopher Mitchum also reveals the sensitive and loving father who is an actor…
miserable youth
He was born in 1917 and very quickly became fatherless, forced to leave the family home during the crisis of 1929. In 1933 he found himself imprisoned in Savannah (Georgia) for vagrancy. There he learns to play the muscles to be respected.
free spirit
In the 1950s, amid anti-communist paranoia, when summoned by the McCarthy commission, he said: I have a few principles in life, but there is one I hold on to, and that is to never talk too long with people I wouldn’t want to drink with. I can’t see anyone behind the grocery counter I’d like to have a drink with. But after a trip in Vietnam in 1966, Robert Mitchum would enthusiastically support the war.
fiery anger
In 1952, the actor passed under the management of Otto Preminger. A very sweet face. The actress has to slap Jean Simmons. After a few shoots, the director is still not satisfied. Robert Mitchum then moves towards him and slaps him violently! That didn’t stop Otto Preminger from rehiring the actor two years later. The River of No Return.
Hollywood bad boy Robert Mitchum: Sunday, February 26 at 22:25 Arte
HACENE CHOUCHAOUI
Source: Programme Television
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