One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century.
Dive headfirst into the life and legacy of Robert Mitchum. Brimming with the cool ruggedness that Mitchum himself embodied, Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" explores the stirring journey of one of Hollywood's most respected stars.
Pioneering a new style of acting, Mitchum was the screen's first hipster antihero. Before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood, Mitchum was the inventor of big-screen cool. Journey through his landmark performances in classics including The Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear, and Farewell, My Lovely.
Extensively researched, this biography unravels Mitchum's life with intimate details picked from thousands of rare documents and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with family, friends, and colleagues.
Offering an in-depth and accurate projection of this revered character, Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is as vividly detailed and colorful as the star himself, painting an outrageous, comic, and tragic portrait of an astounding life.
Industry Reviews
"This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics." --Publishers Weekly"Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man's miserable behavior alongside [Server's] vast admiration for Mitchum's body of work and hugely iconic personality." --The New York Times"Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man's man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work." --George P. Pelecanos, author of Right as Rain This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics. "Publishers Weekly" Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man's miserable behavior alongside [Server's] vast admiration for Mitchum's body of work and hugely iconic personality. "The New York Times" "Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care"" is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man's man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work. "George P. Pelecanos, author of Right as Rain"" "This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics."--"Publishers Weekly" "Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man's miserable behavior alongside [Server's] vast admiration for Mitchum's body of work and hugely iconic personality."--"The New York Times" ""Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care"" is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man's man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work."--George P. Pelecanos, author of "Right as Rain" "This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics."-"Publishers Weekly" "Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man's miserable behavior alongside [Server's] vast admiration for Mitchum's body of work and hugely iconic personality."-"The New York Times" ""Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care"" is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man's man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work."-George P. Pelecanos, author of "Right as Rain" " This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics." -- "Publishers Weekly" " Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the man' s miserable behavior alongside [Server' s] vast admiration for Mitchum' s body of work and hugely iconic personality." -- "The New York Times" " "Robert Mitchum: " Baby, I Don' t Care" " is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a man' s man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work." -- George P. Pelecanos, author of "Right as Rain"
