00:00Are you ready?
00:02Did you always want to be a movie star?
00:06No, I wanted to be queen.
00:10Robert Mitchum's reputation was set.
00:12Baby, I don't care.
00:15With the success of Out of the Past,
00:17Hughes realized Mitchum was much more than a B-movie actor.
00:20He was a sex symbol.
00:22The male Jane Russell, as the gossip mag said.
00:25He tended to have affairs with a good number of his leading ladies.
00:30His bad boy image, which he readily exploited,
00:33was leagues away from the man he truly was.
00:37Are they talking about my father?
00:39Because that wasn't the man I knew.
00:41It all seemed so much like one of his film noirs
00:44that Mitchum immediately declared to the Los Angeles Times
00:47that an arrest for drug use spelled the end of a career.
00:50So when he got out of jail, Mitchum was even more surprised
00:53to find a crowd of journalists waiting.
00:56The photos taken of him in jail,
00:58widely distributed by Howard Hughes,
01:00had made him even more popular.
01:02As long as the movie business was going to give him work,
01:04Mitchum let his true nature shine through.
01:07That's a good story. I enjoyed that.
01:09True story? Wow.
01:11What a way to go.
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