“Years ago, I saved up a million dollars from acting – a lot of money in those days – and spent it all on a horse farm in Tucson. Now when I go down there, I look at that place, and I realize my whole acting career adds up to a million dollars worth of horse shit.”
When approached to play the villain in 1962’s ‘Cape Fear’, actor Robert Mitchum originally turned down the role of Max Cady.
But convinced that Mitchum would make the perfect Cady, director J. Lee Thompson sent him a bottle of bourbon.
According to a Mitchum biography authored by Lee Server, a couple of days later, Mitchum sent a telegraph to Thompson, which read: "I've had your bourbon. I'm drunk. I'll do it."
A true vintage blackout silver screen icon. Remember, this was the actor fired from ‘Blood Alley’ (1955) for allegedly getting drunk and arguing with a crewmember, whom he proceeded to throw into a nearby river.
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