Robert Mitchum: Recommended Reading If you're shopping for a Mitchum biography, your only in-print choice is Lee Server's excellent 2001 book Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care, although it's hardly the first book written about the acting icon. However, most are currently out of print, so used bookstores and stores or online services that do book searches may be your only hope to find some of the titles below. Mitchum Biographies Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care", Lee Server, 2001, St. Martin's Press The Robert Mitchum Story, ("It Sure Beats Working"), Mike Tomkies, 1972, Ballantine Books (out of print) Robert Mitchum, A Biography, George Eels, 1984, Franklin Watts, Inc. (out of print) The Tough Guys, James Robert Parish, 1976, Arlington House Also features sections on James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson and Paul Muni (out of print) Them Ornery Mitchum Boys: The Adventures of Robert and John Mitchum John Mitchum, 1989, Creatures at Large Press Mitchum's younger brother John, (who passed away in November of 2001), shares bawdy anecdotes about his more famous acting brother (out of print) Robert Mitchum, A Bio-Bibliography , Jerry Roberts, 1992, Greenwood Press An exhaustive tome, with annotated notes of Mitchum's films, radio, TV, and stage appearances, as well as an annotated bibliography covering every book on Mitchum prior to 1992. Books on Mitchum Films BFI Companion to The Night of the Hunter, Simon Callow Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter, Preston Neal Jones, 2002 Mitchum-related Books It would be impossible to list all the books that mention Mitchum, since his career spanned 50-plus years, he gets a lot of mentions. The most authoritative source on Mitchum remains the above-mentioned Robert Mitchum, A Bio-Bibliography, by Jerry Roberts. Film Biographies Ava, Roland Flamini, 1983, Berkley Books Biography of Ava Gardner, Mitchum's co-star in My Forbidden Past Just Tell Me When to Cry, A Memoir, Richard Fleischer, 1993, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. Autobiography of director Fleischer, who directed Mitchum (uncredited) in His Kind of Woman and in Bandido My Lucky Stars, A Hollywood Memoir, Shirley MacLaine, 1995, Bantam Books MacLaine talks about working with Mitchum in What a Way to Go! and Two for the Seesaw and goes on record about their affair Jane Russell, An Autobiography, 1985, Franklin Watts, Inc. Jane Russell recounts working with Mitchum on Macao and His Kind of Woman Film Noir Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, Eddie Muller, 1998, St. Martin's Press The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, Foster Hirsch, 1981, Da Capo Press Brief discussion of Mitchum's noir roles Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror, Bruce Crowther, 1988, Continuum Publishing Co., New York (out of print) Extended discussion of Mitchum as noir actor Suspects, David Thomson, 1985, Vintage Books Critic David Thomson weaves his favorite film characters, notably Jeff Bailey from Out of the Past and George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life, into a noir novel

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