Happy Father's Day: Mitchum's Daughter To Appear At UCLA Screening

UCLA shared this photo of ROBERT MITCHUM and his daughter, Petrine, on Twitter. Petrine, along with William Wellman, Jr., will attend a screening of the western "Track of the Cat" on June 28 at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles.

Petrine will sign copies of her book "Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television" and Wellman will be there to sign his book about his father, "Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel" beginning at 6 p.m.

"Track of the Cat" is a 1954 Western in which Mitchum -- the head of a backwoods clan -- hunts a killer mountain lion. It costars Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi and William Hopper.

The film is part of a double bill with another Wellman western, "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Harry Morgan.

For more information on the program, visit the UCLA site.

The Billy Wilder Theater is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

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Mitchum to Be Inducted into The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Fame

ROBERT MITCHUM will be inducted into the the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City as part of its annual Western Heritage Awards, which will be held on Apri 20.

The black-tie affair honors stars in 16 categories of Western music, literature, television and film. For induction into the Hall of Great Western Performers, actors must have made significant contributions to the perpetuation of the Western film, radio or theatre. The inductee must project the traditional Western ideals of honesty, integrity and self-sufficiency.

Mitchum's many westerns include El Dorado with John Wayne, Track of the Cat, Blood on the Moon, the noir-western Pursued, The Red Pony, River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe and the rodeo film The Lusty Men. His first film role was a villain in 1943's Hoppy Serves a Writ and his final theatrical film was the 1996 indie western Dead Man, with Johnny Depp.

Also being inducted this year are and Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo, who played TV's Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho, and The Last of the Mohicans star Wes Studi

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Robert Mitchum Western Series at UCLA

Mitchum in 'Blood on the Moon'

Great news for LA-based ROBERT MITCHUM fans: UCLA is screening 10 of his westerns in a series called Tracking the Cat: Robert Mitchum in the West.

The series runs from July 8 through July 30 and includes both well-known westerns like El Dorado and some much more obscure cowboy flicks, like West of the Pecos. 

Films in the series include several great films not on DVD, like Blood on the Moon, The Lusty Men, as well as Pursued, The Sundowners (which apparently counts as a western even though it's set in Australia), Track of the Cat, Rachel and the Stranger, River of No Return and The Wonderful Country.


Overview of Mitchum's westerns.