Them Ornery Mitchum Boys Author:John Mitchum An insider's look at the truth behind the legend of Robert Mitchum, as it could only be told by his brother, John Mitchum. An accomplished actor, singer, guitarist, composer, and raconteur, John traces their parallel lives with a lusty sense of humor, writing with an insight and compassion that exposes the follies and foibles, the joys and s... more »orrows of being a Mitchum.
Stories about the rebellious hard-fighting Mitchum brothers' early days in Delaware and New York City, about their experiences riding freights during the Depression, about their parallel struggles for fame in Hollywood.
Poems by Robert Mitchum exposing a gentle side the public rarely sees.
Photographs from the Mitchum family scrapbooks, from the time the brothers were babies until their days as beachcombers in Long Beach. In all, 356 photographs, including stills from the many films and TV shows the Mitchums have starred in, as well as rare publicity pictures of the colorful character actors, boxers and sluggers, stand-ins and stunt men the Mitchums have caroused with during their rowdiest years in Hollywood.
Four hundred pages jam-packed with stories (some true, some legend) about John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, Charles Bronson, Forrest Tucker, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, J. Carrol Naish, Monty Woolley, Phil Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Charles MacGraw, Marilyn Monroe, John Huston, Jack Lemmon, Burt Reynolds, Jean Seberg, Dan Blocker, Gloria Grahame, Carroll Righter, William Boyd, William Conrad, James Drury, Jane Russell, Charles Laughton, Bud Osborne, Edgar Buchanan, Abel Fernandez, Lenny Geer, Jimmie Rodgers, Roy Lanham, Tim Rooney, Harry Carey Jr., Stubby Kaye, Victor Buono, Don Siegel, Dan Curtis and scores of others who helped to shape... Them Ornery Mitchum Boys« less