Robert Mitchum born 100 years ago

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August 6th would have been the 100 birthday of Robert Mitchum.

What are some of your favorite roles he played.

I liked his performance in “The Night of the Hunter”. He was very scary, with his Love and Hate tattoos.

On a side note, he and his wife Dorothy Spence were married in 1940 and remained married until his death in 1997. Not very common for Hollywood.
 
I heard he could memorize his lines from reading the script just one time; he had an amazing photographic memory!
 
He did a few movies I really enjoyed their names escape me at the moment. I don’t like his later movies though which tended to be depressing.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
August 6th would have been the 100 birthday of Robert Mitchum.

What are some of your favorite roles he played.

I liked his performance in “The Night of the Hunter”. He was very scary, with his Love and Hate tattoos.

On a side note, he and his wife Dorothy Spence were married in 1940 and remained married until his death in 1997. Not very common for Hollywood.
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Cape Fear (the original) and The Sundowners were two of Robert Mitchum’s great films.
 
His absolute best one was “Night of the Hunter”. He was also good in “The Longest Day”. And I have a soft spot for “Holiday Affair”, his Christmas movie with Janet Leigh as the war widow whom he manages to romance away from her stick-in-the-mud fiancee.

Trying to remember if I saw his film with Marilyn Monroe, “River of No Return”. In any event I think I need to see it again.

He was also just a devastatingly handsome man. Very few like that in the movies anymore. Most of the male leads are downright ugly to my eyes.
 
“Night of the Hunter” was very good but his part was too evil for me to like him.
 
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That one was too scary for me to watch. I tried and had to turn it off. But the idea of remaking it was soooo stupid. Remaking a Peck-Mitchum movie is like remaking a Beatles album, just don’t bother.
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Well it was Scorsese. Both has cameos in the remake, I believe.
 
I was able to catch the last few minutes of “The Night of the Hunter”. Mitchum played the villain very well by giving him a bit of corniness along with his malice.

I liked the scene where he puts on his charm to convince Lilian Gish that the children were his.

And she sees right through him, and pulls out the rifle.

She was very cool in this film.
 
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His absolute best one was “Night of the Hunter”. He was also good in “The Longest Day”. And I have a soft spot for “Holiday Affair”, his Christmas movie with Janet Leigh as the war widow whom he manages to romance away from her stick-in-the-mud fiancee.

Trying to remember if I saw his film with Marilyn Monroe, “River of No Return”. In any event I think I need to see it again.

He was also just a devastatingly handsome man. Very few like that in the movies anymore. Most of the male leads are downright ugly to my eyes.
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Amen…plus, he had that dangerous edge. He WAS Philip Marlowe, only twenty years too late.
 
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