Robt MITchum

Years ago Robert Mitchum said something I never forgot, though I cannot quote him word for word. He said that he didn’t understand why there was such a thing as acting school. “It’s like trying to learn to be tall,” is close to what he said.

About a week ago I watched his performance in a late 70s version of The Big Sleep that also featured Candy Clark, Sarah Miles, and an ancient James Stewart. There was a lot of cavalier killing in the movie, and a silliness to it that I don’t remember from my reading of the book, but Mitchum made a superb Marlowe, and his face was aptly set in sleepy worldliness and knowledge of darkness. His acting was tall indeed.

Robt MITchum

Roguish slick as MIT

Oh so a.d. h.o.c

Battered flesh

that makes gals hum

Take a fee & fi fo fum