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MADE THEM UP HIMSELF! ■ BY LOUIS POLLOCK
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■ From all you read about Bob Mitchum, it would seem that such time as he can spare from sleepy-eyed stardom he cynically devotes to the neglect of his character. Most interviewers can't even come close to the truth about him.
It is not the fault of the writers. It is difficult to capture Bob on paper, and Bob doesn't make it any easier. He often takes an impish delight in supplying some of the wrong colors which have been used to paint the popular picture of him.
The result is that the Bob Mitchum the public knows is a self-made fraud. A big, tall one. Inside that, Mitchum is a guy he never lets anyone see; that he isn't going to let anyone see, no matter how misrepresented he is. Listen to Mitchum about Mitchum and after a while you can feel him laughing at you, and through you, at the world. He paints himself black, black and heartless. And in the end, you listen not so much to what he says as to yourself asking why he says it.
It is becoming clear that all through his professional life he has tried to hide two aspects of himself: (1) that he is a man with a heart, and a soft one, (2) that he is serious about the art of acting. But time — Bob has been under journalistic observation for nearly ten years now — is defeating his little game. Despite his own efforts, he reveals his true self in little ways — little, but significant — and by a record of achievement he can't very well obscure. There is nothing he can do to keep this from washing out. bit by bit, the legendary Mitchum, the careless, indolent, even dissolute fellow he not only pretends to be, but sometimes makes painfully realistic demonstrations to prove he is. That fantasy is slowly being replaced with a flesh and blood figure who, if not so colorful, is more human and a lot more {Continued on page 80)
Bob pretends to treat homelife carelessly, leave family worries to Dorothy. But he has been seen feeding the baby, carrying luggage and making like a model father with his sons.
Self-styled toughie, Bob is a very dependable actor, lets nothing keep him from work. On location with Rory Calhoun and Marilyn Monroe he even refrained from wolf whistles.
Bob's directors know the only safe person to bawl out is Bob himself; "blackhearted" Mitchum has walked off sets to protest unfair treatment of crew members by higher-ups.
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