Robert Mitchum


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08/05/1917
Bridgeport, CT
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In 1948, was arrested for marijuana possession and served 43 days at a prison farm. His case was later overturned.
Claimed that his sad, sagging eyes were caused by chronic insomnia and a boxing injury.
In 1957, recorded the album Calypso Is Like So, while filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in the Caribbean.
Dropped out of school after 1930 and traveled the country via boxcar, briefly serving time on a Georgia chain gang for vagrancy.
Cowrote and performed "The Ballad of Thunder Road," the theme song of the 1958 movie Thunder Road, in which he starred.