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Default Robert Mitchum

I'd always heard that Mitchum wrote poetry, and I was delighted to find some examples. He sure sounds like himself!

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Wow!! I love these poems. They certainly elucidate that wise and canny look in Mitchum's eyes. Ever see Out of the Past, Sam? Rent or buy the DVD! One of the best noirs ever...Daniel Mainwaring was the scriptwriter.

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I'd say "Night of the Hunter" is a poem, in a way; and a brilliant one.
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I just watched Cape Fear for the first time this week. Brilliant film. Mitchum and Gregory Peck co-star with Polly Bergen.

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I'd always heard that Mitchum wrote poetry, and I was delighted to find some examples. He sure sounds like himself!

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Be careful. I think these are in the manner of how Mitchum might have written.

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You may be right, Chris.
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Hi Sam

I have a copy of Cold Eels: Poetry from the Jeunesse Dorée, Owl Oak Press, 2005, and this is what it tells us in the contributor notes:

"Robert Mitchum: is a deceased actor channeled by Tim Smith"

Smith also has written a series of Mickey Mantle poems.

All the best

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This is Tim Smith from a website called Docudharma in 2007:

My mother was a professional dancer who worked in most of the great musicals of the 30's/40's. She was not a star, but she was Eleanor Powell's stand-in, and she knew many of the big names well. She had a dancing part in the Wizard, but we were never able to pick her out of the entrance into the Emerald City scene.
If one is interested, one may listen here :

http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/w...-at-the-movies

to a reading of a short piece on her as well as other poetry by Robert Mitchum (me, Tim Smith) and some other fine poets from the Jeunesse Doree. The piece on my mother is entitled "The Stand-In"
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"the sea a blue china plate/on a sunlit wall"

Brilliant!
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