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About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Something amazing happened on Saturday. I got an e-mail from none other than Robert Mitchum's eldest son, James Mitchum. THE James Mitchum. I've written about him before if you recall. He read more

Robert Mitchum was known amongst his drinking buddies as a great impersonator. He had an art for doing impressions and various accents and voices (although he couldn't quite master the Irish accent or the Boston accent in movies such as Ryan's Daughter and The Friends of Eddie Coyle, respectively) read more

Well deh. People have been talking about a Norwegian film entitled Robert Mitchum is Dead. The film will premiere on May 15th at the Cannes Film Festival. What is the movie about? I have no idea! What does it have to do with Robert Mitchum? Beats me! After some research, the only description I co read more

This is a really great interview with Robert Mitchum done by the legendary Dick Cavett. It's pretty clear that Cavett is a bit afraid of bad boy Robert Mitchum. Mitchum was such a great storyteller though and Cavett really brought that out of the people he interviewed, by asking the right question read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. It was early 1954 and Robert Mitchum had just been invited to the Cannes Film Festival in France. He was excited to take his wife Dorothy on their first trip to Europe. The marriage betw read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. New on Tumblr is a heckyeahrobertmichum blog created by yours truly. If you are not familiar with Tumblr, it's a blogging service that lends itself to multimedia streaming and reblog read more

The famous scene from The Night of the Hunter (1955) in which Robert Mitchum's character Harry Powell tells the story of Love versus Hate (Good versus Evil) using the tattoos on his knuckles and by dueling with his fists. This scene has become iconic in film history and is referenced in Spike Lee' read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I had some fun yesterday with the Twitter hashtag that was making the rounds yesterday. The goal is to take a person's name and turn it into a pun using a beverage. People came up with gre read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. A subscription to Out of the Past ~ A Classic Film Blog is now available through the Amazon Kindle store for the Kindle eReader device. You can test it out for a free 14 day trial and if y read more

If you are not at least somewhat amused by this album, you have no soul. My favorites are "Coconut Water" and "From a Logical Point of View". Some lyrical gems include: from a logical point of view better marry a woman uglier than you from a logical point of view always marry a woman uglier than y read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Robert Mithcum's oldest son, James Mitchum, had a difficult time developing a career as an actor. It didn't help that he looked so much like his father who at that point had a very recogni read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Thunder Road (1958) has one of the most interesting backstories of all the films Robert Mitchum made in his long career as an actor. It's not as dramatic as perhaps the one for Out of the read more

The theme song of Thunder Road (1958) was co-written and sung by Robert Mitchum. read more

This is an hour long documentary on the career of Robert Mitchum, provided to you by Hulu.com. read more

Whoopsie! So I've been preparing for months. And months. And months for a Robert Mitchum Week. A follow up on my highly successful Norma Shearer Week. It made sense. Norma Shearer is my favorite actress so why wouldn't I do a second themed week with my favorite actor Robert Mitchum. I read the read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I cannot tell you how happy I am that one of my top favorite Norma Shearer films is now out on DVD, thanks to the Warner Archive Collection. And now that they are doing nice original read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. When Tony Rome is out and about, trouble is sure to follow. I really loved this movie, so much so that I watched it twice in a row. Once for the story and a second time for the atmosphere. read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. This was a guest post on Silents and Talkies. Artwork is created by Kate Gabrielle. Go visit her new blog Scathingly Brilliant. --------------------------- Norma Shearer was a sight to b read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Today is the 15th anniversary of the murder of Tejano singer Selena. So I'm in a bit of a sad mood. -------------------- Several things have happened recently which just reiterate the fac read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The construction of United Nations Secretariat building in New York City, New York was completed in 1952. Although it is in New York and activities that happen on the premise are under st read more