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Post by topbilled on Sept 26, 2023 15:48:46 GMT
After paying his dues at poverty row studios, Robert Mitchum finally hit his stride with 1945’s THE STORY OF G.I. JOE. He'd just inked a contract with RKO, and soon the handsome actor was a major movie star. At the studio, he excelled in gritty crime dramas such as CROSSFIRE and OUT OF THE PAST. Occasionally, there were lighter assignments like HOLIDAY AFFAIR. In the early 1950s, he was paired twice with sultry Jane Russell, and the two remained lifelong friends.
Check out:
NEVADA (1944) his first starring role at RKO
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MY FORBIDDEN PAST (1951) with Ava Gardner
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ONE MINUTE TO ZERO (1952) with Ann Blyth
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 26, 2023 19:05:41 GMT
Robert Mitchum would be the biggest star RKO had under contract in the mid-40s and early 50s.
Astaire and Rogers would be for the 30s.
Maybe RKO had bigger stars but I can't think of any.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 26, 2023 23:33:40 GMT
Mitchum's output at RKO:
GIRL RUSH (1944)
NEVADA (1944)
WEST OF THE PECOS (1945)
TILL THE END OF TIME (1946)
THE LOCKET (1946)
CROSSFIRE (1947)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948)
BLOOD ON THE MOON (1948)
THE BIG STEAL (1949)
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
MY FORBIDDEN PAST (1951)
THE RACKET (1951)
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
MACAO (1952)
ONE MINUTE TO ZERO (1952)
ANGEL FACE (1952)
THE LUSTY MEN (1952)
SECOND CHANCE (1953)
SHE COULDN'T SAY NO (1954)
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 27, 2023 0:34:00 GMT
Mitchum's output at RKO:
GIRL RUSH (1944)
NEVADA (1944)
WEST OF THE PECOS (1945)
TILL THE END OF TIME (1946)
THE LOCKET (1946)
CROSSFIRE (1947)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948)
BLOOD ON THE MOON (1948)
THE BIG STEAL (1949)
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
MY FORBIDDEN PAST (1951)
THE RACKET (1951)
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
MACAO (1952)
ONE MINUTE TO ZERO (1952)
ANGEL FACE (1952)
THE LUSTY MEN (1952)
SECOND CHANCE (1953)
SHE COULDN'T SAY NO (1954) I've seen all of these films except the first two. I don't think there is a bad film in the bunch, and there sure are a lot of really fine films. |
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Post by topbilled on Sept 27, 2023 13:48:13 GMT
I've seen GIRL RUSH (1944) on TCM...it's a light confection, sort of a musical revue with comedy sketches. I suppose they put him in it, playing a minor role, to get him familiar with how the studio made its films while grooming him for his first lead role, which was later that year in the B western NEVADA. You can see how they started him in B films then pushed him into A films in secondary lead roles, then finally by 1947, he has his first lead in an A film -- OUT OF THE PAST.
In the meantime they started loaning him to other studios...he made UNDERCURRENT and DESIRE ME at MGM (both failed with audiences) and he did an A western at Warner Brothers called PURSUED with Teresa Wright, with whom he'd work again in TRACK OF THE CAT (1954).
But he fared best at RKO and from 1944 to 1954, he worked his way up to become one of Hollywood's most iconic leading men, and of course his career would run until the 1990s.
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Post by kims on Sept 27, 2023 14:56:32 GMT
Mitchum says he did a number of extra roles for the Hop-a-Long Cassidy franchise. I recall he said he was in HOPPY SERVES A WRIT.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 27, 2023 19:40:40 GMT
Mitchum says he did a number of extra roles for the Hop-a-Long Cassidy franchise. I recall he said he was in HOPPY SERVES A WRIT.
Scholars tend to scoff at B westerns, but before television, those films helped a lot of people get their first break in Hollywood. |
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Post by kims on Sept 27, 2023 20:14:37 GMT
Mitchum said whenever money was low he could get money doing Hoppy.
Yes, scholars, critics scoff at a lot of stuff and tend to forget that the majority of moviegoers look for entertainment, not psychological meaning or political statements. I don't remember which director said the best movies make the most money-implying that some of the most critically acclaimed films weren't great films.
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Post by marysara1 on Oct 1, 2023 7:17:19 GMT
Mitchum said whenever money was low he could get money doing Hoppy. Yes, scholars, critics scoff at a lot of stuff and tend to forget that the majority of moviegoers look for entertainment, not psychological meaning or political statements. I don't remember which director said the best movies make the most money-implying that some of the most critically acclaimed films weren't great films. |
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Post by marysara1 on Oct 1, 2023 7:20:52 GMT
Isn't it the same with authors?.In a movie about the Bronte sisters Greenstreet's character implied it (one sister books made the money but the other was better )
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