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That film's director, Charles Laughton, thought he was "one of the best actors in the world." Like Huston, Laughton saw beneath Mitchum's surpassing cool the heat of an often disappointed perfectionist. In his signature role, the private eye in the classic film noir Out of the Past, Mitchum grimly accepts doom as the price of sexual obsession and lights his passage to it with flaring wisecracks. "I don't want to die," his inamorata cries. "Neither do I, baby," Mitchum snaps. "But if I have to, I'm gonna die last." As inadvertent epitaphs go, it's pretty...
Mary Ann Hill said her son was both "happy-go-lucky" and a "perfectionist...
...where he met the English beauty Joanne Whalley. They were married for seven years, producing two children; they split in 1995. Kilmer subsequently dated Cindy Crawford and recently had to dodge rumors of a tryst with his Saint co-star, Elisabeth Shue. Noyce says that was just Val the perfectionist, obsessed with highlighting the film's romantic glow. "He worked so minutely on this relationship that some crew members said they were having an affair," says Noyce. "I don't believe that was true, but they spent a lot of time in the caravan together, and it was all about...
Amid the mayhem, the director remains a perfectionist. He fusses with each shot, unbuttoning the jacket on an Irish musician who is about to be wrenched from his wife's arms by a flailing fellow passenger. An extra with a bandage on his head--presumably from damage inflicted during an earlier shot--is admonished to keep his face turned away from the camera...
...very intense, guy," he says. "I'm perfectionist--I see things and I want them to be a certain way, and I work hard to get them that way. If they're not perfect, I'm disappointed in myself...