Word: mitchums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert (Robert Mitchum), who has always had a thing...
Confined to a few brief scenes, the bearded Mitchum is little more than a cameo of a goat. The bloated, bejeweled Taylor seems less a depleted call girl than a prosperous madam. But alternately snooty or snarling, she does underline the message of her role: there is nothing more pretentious than swank posing as class. Unfortunately, that is the message of the film as well...
...Mitchum, acting is strictly journeyman stuff. "I just fall in and fall out," he claims. Not everyone is conned by his nonchalant, sleepy-eyed depreciations. "He's so good," says Deborah Kerr, "that acting is like shelling peas. That's partly because his role is so often the same. He used to describe it as being beaten to death by gorillas. He seems slapdash, but he plumbs the depths of each character...
...depth was apparent in The Night of the Hunter, in which he came close to playing himself, in the role of an itinerant, self-educated backwoods preacher with the word LOVE tattooed on one hand and HATE on the other. Charles Laughton, who directed him in the picture, called Mitchum "one of the best actors in the world." The potential at least is there, and occasionally the taste. Mitchum pridefully insists that he will not make a picture merely for the money. He refused $500,000 to do Town Without Pity. When United Artists upped the offer...
...color-and his professional drabness. Is there still a chance for him to unveil his talent? "That would require a lot more exposure of himself," says Actress Polly Bergen. "And he's not sure that he likes what's inside him, which is a shame." Not to Mitchum. Rich, languid, self-hating, self-loving, he can make a claim shared by only a handful of Hollywood veterans. In a town where fashions in faces change with the tides, he has survived. For Mitchum, that seems to be enough...