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Miranda Carter: Robert Mitchum and Steve McQueen, 14 January 2002
Robert Mitchum: Solid, Dad, Crazy
by Damien Love.
Batsford, 208 pp., £15.99, December 2001,0 7134 8707 0 Show More
by Damien Love.
Batsford, 208 pp., £15.99, December 2001,
Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care
by Lee Server.
Faber, 590 pp., £20, October 2001,0 571 20994 7 Show More
by Lee Server.
Faber, 590 pp., £20, October 2001,
McQueen: The Biography
by Christopher Sandford.
HarperCollins, 497 pp., £16.99, October 2001,0 00 257195 1 Show More
by Christopher Sandford.
HarperCollins, 497 pp., £16.99, October 2001,
“... At the height of Steve McQueen’s fame in 1968, after a run of huge box-office successes – The Sand Pebble, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt – it was Robert Mitchum, his elder by 13 years and a star for more than twenty, who was voted the screen’s ‘godfather of cool’ on America’s university campuses. Both men had got to where they were by doing or seeming to do nothing ... ”