{"id":142224,"date":"2018-12-19T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=142224"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:21:44","slug":"yet-another-reason-to-love-robert-mitchum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=142224","title":{"rendered":"Yet another reason to love Robert Mitchum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/OGhV.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/OGhV.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;During filming [<i>The Night of the Hunter<\/i>], as they drove along a freeway, [Charles] Laughton told [Robert] Mitchum, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if you know, and I don&#8217;t know if you care, and I don&#8217;t care if you know, but there is a strong streak of homosexuality in me,&#8217; to which Mitchum replied, &#8216;No shit!&#8217; and then &#8216;Stop the car!&#8217; to Laughton&#8217;s tortuously worded admission. This was a well-worn routine for Laughton, and Mitchum&#8217;s joking reaction put Laughton finally at ease, a precious moment of understanding between two very different people.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Dan Callahan, <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1476674051\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1476674051&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=af4dc694f3b8c1545b9f5f3a0265d5a3\">The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1476674051\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>. (I interviewed Dan about his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/house\/article\/the-mystery-of-screen-acting-an-interview-with-author-dan-callahan\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;During filming [The Night of the Hunter], as they drove along a freeway, [Charles] Laughton told [Robert] Mitchum, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if you know, and I don&#8217;t know if you care, and I don&#8217;t care if you know, but there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=142224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,24],"tags":[2518,2177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142229,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142224\/revisions\/142229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}