Word: mitchum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kind of Woman" starts out as That Kind of Picture. The kind in which Robert Mitchum says to Jane Russell, "I'm a gambler, honey," and she answers, releasing part of her bathing suit, "Oh yeah, well I play for pretty high stakes...
...Kind of Woman (RKO) is a somewhat lumpy blend of slapstick comedy and dead-serious melodrama. Gambler Robert Mitchum, after being alternately wooed and walloped by gangsters, finds himself in an isolated Mexican resort trying to cope with a plot that defies analysis. While awaiting the arrival of the criminal mastermind (Raymond Burr), Mitchum patches up a newlyweds' quarrel; exchanges terse dialogue and melting looks with bosomy Jane Russell; plays straight man for Vincent Price, a hammy Hollywood star...
...apparently as puzzled by the script as any moviegoer, ends the film with a comedy rescue involving a band of Mexican Keystone cops. Jane Russell, looking woodenly decorative, works her throaty way through a couple of songs (Five Little Miles from San Berdoo and You'll Know), while Mitchum manages his undemanding part with an air of stoical resignation...
...reputation as Hollywood's most irresistible female grew apace. When Robert Mitchum was assigned to a picture with her, he cautiously called the studio's head, who had once gone around with Ava, and asked if it would be all right to start dating her. The boss pondered the matter for a moment and replied that, on the contrary, it was probably a good idea: "If you don't take her out, Robbie, people will just start saying you're a little queer...
Armed with a convenient $900,000 inheritance, Ava bribes her rakish ne'er-do-well of a cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up Mitchum's home by seducing his wife (Janis Carter)-a job Douglas seems perfectly willing to attempt without pay. But, on the point of success, Douglas accidentally kills his quarry. Mitchum, suspected of doing his wife in, can be saved only by Ava's last-minute confession of her foul scheme...