Product Description

A hobo during the depression, Robert Mitchum fell into acting by chance. After early success he was famously busted for smoking marijuana in the 1950s, and remained an unrepentant misbehaver until his death in 1997. This work looks at his life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36857 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Review
'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

Scotland on Sunday
'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.'

New Statesman
'This is a book you can wallow in. You're never far from a fight or a steamy romance or a drinking binge...'

Customer Reviews

So much more than just an actor
I collect biographies, particularly those connected to Hollywood.
All I have to say is this.."Baby, I don't care" is, without doubt, the best biography of any film star I have ever read.
Robert Mitchum was a remarkable man, a wonderful actor. Lee Server - The author of this brilliant biography - is first class in telling the life story of, probably, Hollywood's finest yet most underrated actor.
Thanks to Lee Server, I will now watch with avid interest, every Mitchum movie that gets aired on Television. Robert Mitchum was so much more than just an actor.

A Great Star Robert Mitchum.
A very well researched book on this under rated actor with quotes from family, friends (and the not so friendly)and fellow actors and covers all his movies with great depth, nothing in the life of Robert Mitchum has been left out, a warts and all biography.. I recommend the book to any movie buff.

One of the great biographies of any Film Star you are likely to read.
Lee Sever's brilliant Biography of Mitchum is biographical writing at it's best. Thoroughly researched this book brings to life one of Hollywood's great Actors and rebels. What it also reveals however is the "poet with an axe". Mitchum was a phenomenally intelligent and cultured man for all his drug-taking, womanising and general roister-doistering. But he hid his intelligence sometimes behind characters, but nearl always in real life. Only those that got close to him or that he respected were ever allowed into the other side of Mitchum, a side which was more Mark Twain Hollywood vain. The book had me in tears come it's ending, partially for Mitchum and partially because one didn't want the book to end. I have read MANY Hollywood biographies over the years and this is by far the most outstanding I have ever read. I cannot recommend it highly enough.