Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care"

One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century. This is the first complete biography of Mitchum - a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates, spanning seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life - comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous.