Evening star., 1946-10-20
HOLLYWOOD.

From adagio dancing to Greer
Carson, Katharine Hepburn and
Teresa Wright--that's the neat jump
hurdled by Robert Mitchum, Holly
woods up-and-coming male star
and the most outspoken actor I've
yet had the pleasure of interviewing.
For instance, the day visited him
he was grumbling about his home
life, or rather he told me that his
wife was grumbling about her life
with him. She says she doesn't get
to see me. And maybe I get to see
too much of her relatives" There's
a slew of Mrs. Mitchum's relatives
living with them in the still unfur-
nished house in North Hollywood
But when I corner Bob and ask,
Does that mean there's rift in
your marriage" he almost screams,
No, love my wife"
And at this moment, wife Dorothy
comes on the set of Pursued where
Bob is co-starring with Teresa
Wright, and he yells, "Hey, Dorothy
want you to meet Sheilah Graham
and / want you to tell her about
whether we're happy or not" I go
into corner with the lady and her
only complaint about Bob is that he
works too hard and she doesn't get
to see him much. Neither do their
two children-even on Sundays, be-
cause Pop is usually rehearsing with
little theater group. Otherwise
she loves him. And she should, she
has known him since she was IA and
he 16.
You mean you've known each
other since you went to school?"
asked Bob later. Il never went to
school," he tells me, Il quarreled
violently with the educational sys-
tenn, and decided to try my fortune
in the world instead"
Wrote Children's Books.
Bob's first job in the world was as
bus boy in the Astor Hotel in New
The reason I took the job,
he tells me, was because I had
access to the refrigerators, and my
family was starving and could
help myself to food and help my
mother and sister and brother ano
little sister" Bob'S father died wher
he was youngster.
MY next job was writing dirty
lyrics for night club singers and
also wrote plays and books for chill
dren," says the amazing Mr.. Nit
chum. And when I was 13 and IA
wrote stories for those confession
magazines"
| Before taking up the profession
of adagio dancing Bob "shilled To-
an astronomer in Palm Beach.
One evening on the Florida sands
Bob met a girl and she was {
dancer and asked him to be he
partner. That was fine. until on
night dropped her and broke thre'
of her ribs and I was fired" say
Mitchum with deadpan face.
Life looked black at this point
but you can't keep an Irishmal
down long-'I won 1900 in a crap
game" Bob tells me, and hoppe'
a Greyhound bus and went hom
to Philadelphia and married Doro
thy"
Tired and Fed Up.
/ Mitchum is not the new star h
seems to be. Il came to HOLLYWOOD
nine years ago. he tells me- H
played Westerns at Republic and il
several Hopalong Cassidy pictures
and was under contract TO RKC
David Selznick saw Bob in Hopa
long picture and during the wa
made a deal with RKO to us,
Mitchum for two pictures year
When Selznick loaned him to United
States Pictures for Pursued" SelZ
nick received $4,000 for Bob. An.
before that when RKO loaned Bol
to Metro for Greer Carson in Il
Woman of My own" they receivet
$4,000. And a similar sum whel
Bob appeared with Katharine Hep
burn in "Undercurrent"
/ i've made five pictures since
came out of the Army last october,
Bob tells me, land not only am
tired but I'm fed up. At one tim