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Why does he look this good? How does he make a leather jacket look so perfect on him? 🥵🔥 Hugging and kissing immediately

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SAY IT

This book really captures and articulates all the emotions and thoughts I had about him in such a sharp and sophisticated way!

"People are attracted to someone who doesn't appear to care." YESSS

"Where many actors believe they are contributing to art, Mitchum always refused to acknowledge any real importance in acting, except that it supported his family. But this attitude enabled him to come in clean and facile and without baggage for each role." THIS!

(Even the part comparing him to that pompous ass is so on point.)

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I love the way he stands, leaning against something at an angle

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Went through the trouble of installing Photoshop to make Robert Mitchum gifs, only for Tumblr to ruin the quality. Gave up.

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The Wonderful Country (1959): Robert Mitchum's Makeover

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A face worn out by life

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Robert Mitchum was around for so long that watching his movies feels like time travel. One moment I'm in the 1940s, the next in the 1970s.

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During the filming of the movie on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland's County Kerry, Robert Mitchum planted marijuana plants in the back garden of the hotel used by the production cast and crew, and gave many of the people connected with the production, including Sarah Miles' mother, and the local constabulary, their first experiences with the drug.

Are you like a weed ambassador or something?

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Fuck, it really was a shitty-ass town

I just started watching, but I can already tell that place is a fucking awful town :)

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Holy crap, Ryan’s Daughter is over 3 hours long! I didn’t realize it was that long.

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This popped up in the first 5 minutes Thanks 🤤

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Robert Mitchum's Jazz Recordings

Robert Mitchum is known for recording calypso and country music, such as his country hit The Ballad of Thunder Road. He sang several songs in his movies as well. But did you know that he also recorded jazz music?

It seems he attempted to release a jazz album in 1956. That year, he recorded jazz standards like Dream a Little Dream of Me and Blue Skies.

However, the jazz album was never released at the time. Eventually, these jazz covers were compiled with songs from his movies and released in 1997 after his death.

Some of the recordings were just rough takes, so you can hear him chatting with the studio crew, warming up before starting the song, and even muttering when he forgot the lyrics.

Among the seven jazz covers that were released, these three are my personal favorites.

Mitchum: I'm confessin' that I love you. Tell me that you love me too.

Me: (nod enthusiastically)

And there's a jazzy version of Leaning, the chilling song he sang in The Night of the Hunter.

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They could be talking about the actor as much as the character he’s playing, and this keeps on happening in Mitchum’s movies. People remark on his inscrutability and lack of ties, calling him “a strange stranger” (The Yakuza) and “a man who’s made it his business all of his life to keep under cover” (His Kind of Woman). Sometimes Mitchum himself seems to speak through his characters, as when he boasts in Thunder Road: “I don’t make no deals with nobody…I don’t buddy up with one living soul.” Being alone and adrift, always on the move and on the outside, demands monumental self-assurance. Onscreen, Mitchum looks oddly comfortable in his doom-haunted alienation, relaxing into his peculiar blend of lucklessness and invincibility. A guarded enigma, he’s also a rock-solid, radically independent presence. Keely Smith speaks for many when she tells him in Thunder Road, “I just want you altogether, ’cause you’re the only natural man I ever knew.” ⋯ In the 1940s he drifted through films with a haunted air, rarely cracking a smile. In repose his face, far from mean or immoral, conveys an inchoate sadness through its mask-like stillness, the downward slant of eyebrows and mouth. The older he got, the more amusement showed through the mask of detachment, a wonderful banked-down warmth that now and then glows brighter, like coals stirred by a poker.

Some quotes in that great article come from this book.

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Robert Mitchum’s reaction to being sentenced to 60 days for marijuana possession