Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care

(Paperback, Main)

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A tough guy with lazy style and soulful eyes, Mitchum was one of the few Hollywood stars whose real life was more interesting than his screen persona. A hobo during the Depression, he fell into acting by happenstance. After early success he was famously busted for smoking marijuana in the 1950s, and remained an unrepentant misbehaver until his death in 1997. Exhaustively researched and written with considerable panache, Robert Mitchum makes for a fabulous read about a fascinating life.

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'Lee Server's thorough work gives Mitchum the biography he deserves, and consolidates his reputation as one of the very best.' Guardian; 'This is a book you can wallow in. You're never far from a fight or a steamy romance or a drinking binge - Robert Mitchum, after all, was like a Robert Mitchum character.' New Statesman; 'Server has accumulated plenty of intriguing details about Mitchum's life, and his style parallels the laid-back character of his subject.' Sunday Express; 'Some guy. And this is some book... Server is the best kind of biographer, a fan who doesn't let his admiration get in the way of telling the truth'. Scotland on Sunday

Author Bio

Lee Server is the author of Danger is my Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines 1896-1953, Sam Fuller: Film is a Battleground, Over my Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback 1945-1955, Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo, and Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures. He is also the co-editor of The Big Book of Noir.