Mitchum, with his own chest hair, we assume, in His Kind of Woman
Story at LA Times
Ladies and gentlemen, the UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation has returned. This is the 14th UCLA festival, at one time an annual event and now held every other year at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. Though I've seen only parts of it, the most boggling program of the entire series looks to be "Behind the Scenes in Hollywood," which samples the archive's fascinating collection of cinematic flotsam and jetsam ... Here is possibly the first-ever 1942 screen appearance by ROBERT MITCHUM as a nameless extra getting hair put on his chest in a Max Factor promotional film called "The Magic of Make-Up." — Kenneth Turan
Note: Mitchum in need of extra chest hair? I recall reading that he was actually the first actor in Hollywood to refuse to shave his chest hair, ushering in a new age of ultra-macho movie stars. Mitchum's film debut was in 1943, so this footage would definitely pre-date that.
The festival runs from March-April. The Mitchum footage will be screened April 10.
UCLA Film & Television Archive Schedule.
No comments:
Post a Comment