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Article: MAD MITCH UNMASKED; He was the star who hated his films, the womaniser who rejected Monroe, the jailbird who loved his family. Now a new book also reveals the dire poverty that was the key to Robert Mitchum's life.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2001
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON
FILMGOERS know him as General Cota, the indomitable symbol of American leadership on Omaha Beach in The Longest Day, as Captain Pug Henry in The Winds Of War, and as the weary, jaded private eye Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely.
Some will remember his greatest role, as the psychopathic, child-hunting, religious fanatic in The Night Of The Hunter, with HATE tattooed on the fingers of one hand and LOVE on the other. But how much do any of us know of the real Robert Mitchum? No other Hollywood star appeared in so many films, yet gave away so little of himself.
He dominated the screen through the sheer power of his ...