Robert Mitchum Baby I Dont by Lee Server

Robert Mitchum Baby I Dont by Lee Server

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, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; and The Winds of War. Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screen's first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool.

Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous.

LEE SERVER is the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographer of Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner, Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care and Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing, respectively. The Los Angeles Times awarded Robert Mitchum's book a Best Book of the Year, the Sunday Times' film biography of the year, and one of the 60 Greatest Cinema Books. The novel Ava Gardner was a New York Times Notable Book as well as a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today bestseller. He resides in the city of Palm Springs, California.