Archive for August 6th, 2011

TV DEBUT OF THE TWIST ON THIS DAY IN 1960


American Bandstand
with Dick Clark

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REMEMBERING ROBERT MITCHUM

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Robert-Mitchum later 
                     (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was a film actor, author, composer and
singer who is #23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male
American screen legends of all time. He appeared in Charles Laughton’s
only film as director, The Night of the Hunter (1955). Mitchum also starred
in Thunder Road (1958), Cape Fear (1962), and the Howard Hawks western
El Dorado (1966). Robert Mitchum recorded a song he had written for the
film Thunder Road, titled “The Ballad of Thunder Road”. The country-styled
song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching #69 on the Billboard Pop
Singles Chart.

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Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

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Robert Mitchum from Cape Fear


El Dorado
John Wayne (left) with Robert Mitchum in El Dorado



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