Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.
I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
Movies bore me, especially my own.
People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Mitchum replaced Edward Woodward (not as Woodward's character, Robert McCall, the Equalizer, though) in two episodes of The Equalizer after the star of the CBS series was felled by a heart attack. Woodward recovered and resumed the title role.
Mitchum hated working for Lockheed Aircraft. Coming home from the graveyard shift one morning, he found he couldn't see. Doctors he consulted told him nothing was wrong... until one advised him that his blindness just might be related to the fact that he was functioning virtually without sleep. Mitchum hated his job so much that he couldn't sleep because he would just have to wake up and go to work again! The doctor advised him to quit his job. Mitchum did... and took up acting instead.
Mitchum twice appeared as the Mystery Guest on episodes of What's My Line?
Veteran horror star Lon Chaney, Jr. played Mitchum's father in 1954's Not as a Stranger even though Chaney was only 11 years older than Mitchum in real life.
Mitchum was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea by wife Dorothy and family friend Jane Russell. No memorial service was held at Mitchum's insistence.
Mitchum was treated for alcholism at the Betty Ford Center in 1984.
Mitchum stood 6 feet 1 inch tall.
Mitchum's step-father was a former British Army major.
Mitchum played real life Brigadier General Norman Cota in the 1962 war epic The Longest Day.
In 1991, Mitchum won a lifetime achievement award from the National Board of Review.
Mitchum played private eye Phillip Marlowe in two movies: Farewell, My Lovely and The Big Sleep.
Mitchum's real life son James played his much younger brother in the 1958 moonshining film Thunder Road.
Mitchum directed the child actors in Night of the Hunter because director Charles Laughton couldn't stand children.
In August of 1948, Mitchum was arrested for marijuana possession and sentenced to 60 days in jail. The conviction was later overturned.
Mitchum worked with Marilyn Monroe's first husband, Jim Dougherty, in an aircraft factory during World War II. He would later star with Monroe in River of No Return.
Mitchum's older sister Julie was a stage actress who convinced him to give theatre a try.
Mitchum went to live with his grandparents in Delaware when he was 12 years old and promptly got expelled from school for fighting with the principal.
Robert's parents names were James Thomas and Ann Harriet Gunderson Mitchum. Jams was Irish on his mother's side and Blackfoot on his father's; Ann was a Norwegian sea captain's daughter.
Mitchum, by his own admission, once drank Screwdrivers by the pitcherful.
MItchum's role as the sinister Max Cady in the 1962 film Cape Fear was played by Robert DeNiro in the 1991 remake in which Mitchum also had a small role.
Robert Mitchum released two music albums in his career: Calypso Is Like So (1957) and That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings (1967).
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