1948 movie star Robert Mitchum busted for marijuana.

[Emile]

Hollywood bad boy Robert Mitchum was born on August 6, 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He appeared in more than 100 movies from 1944-1995. Mitchum’s best-known for his roles in The Story of G.I. Joe (his only Oscar nomination); River of No Return; The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; The Enemy Below; Thunder Road; Home from the Hill; The Sundowners; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; and The Friends of Eddie Coyle. He was named the Most Uncooperative Actor of 1950.

Mitchum’s rebel reputation had a lot to do with what happened to him on Aug. 31, 1948 when he, actress Lila Leeds and two others were “booked on suspicion of violating state and federal narcotics laws” at Leeds’ Laurel Canyon house on Ridpath Dr., where a “marijuana smoking party” was taking place, according to a newspaper report. Los Angeles police staked out the tea pad “for two and half hours through a rear bedroom window.” During the raid, they confiscated 13 “reefers” (joints) from Mitchum, who was 31 at the time. Mitchum was eventually charged with possessing and conspiring to possess marijuana.

He allegedly told the police after the bust: “Yes, boys, I was smoking the marijuana cigarette when you came in. I guess it’s all over now. I’ve been smoking marijuana for years. The last time I smoked was about a week ago. I knew I would get caught sooner or later. This is the bitter end of my career. I’m ruined.”


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[Walleye]

1. He went to my high school at the same time as my father

It was small school my father knew him pretty well, but he was friends with Mitchum’s girlfriend, who eventually became his Mrs. Mitchum. One day in 1946 my father was in downtown Dover, Delaware, our hometown, and he saw Mitchum ‘s wife, he said where’s your husband. She said, right here, and they posed in front of his brand new 1946 Cadillac. My father took a picture with his speed graphic and we still have this beautiful black-and-white of those two. He was still married to her at the time of his death

[Emile]

2. WOW, that's a cool story. Mitchum was born the same year as my dad.

[Walleye]

3. My dad was born in 1919. Mitchum dropped out of high school didn't graduate

He would write letters back to his girlfriend about how he was getting into the movie business and people laughed. His brother did graduate from there, Caesar Rodney high school in Delaware. Any famous person that spent any time of their life here in Delaware, we claim him as one of ours.I’ve always thought he was a really good actor, and G.I. Joe is such a powerful movie, they couldn’t even show it for years, it was too antiwar. Of course when I became a pothead in the 60s, he was really a hero to me

[Emile]

4. I always liked his acting too. Amazing how much you know about him.

The article above goes on and on about his life.

[Emile]

12. They were married until his death 57 years.

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[Walleye]

13. Dorothy Spence I just remembered her name, good old Delaware name good friends, with my pop

[Maraya1969]

5. Wait a minute. He was born in 1917? Subtract that from 2022 and you get

105. Are you telling this guy is 105 or am I really going senile?

[Emile]

6. LOL read the article.

This arrest happened in 1948. Robert Mitchum died in 1997.

[Maraya1969]

7. Oh. I knew that.

[Emile]

8. 👍

[rso]

9. Mitchum

I met him briefly in Jamaica in 1991 when he was attending an equestrian competition having been invited by his friend, who was US Ambassador to Jamaica at the time. He seemed very reserved and low-key, not the friendliest guy in the World. Someone came up and asked him for an autograph, and he refused.

[Skittles]

10. he had stoned eyes....

[Emile]

11. LOL, I think you're right!

[Skittles]

17. ...

[Walleye]

14. This is the photo my father took of Robert Mitcham and his wife, Dorothy Spence, in 1946

It’s just a faded copy I had, I will look for the original

[Emile]

15. They were a beautiful couple.

I would cherish that photograph.

[Walleye]

16. Yes, there is a much better copy, my brother keeps the family archive

4 x 5 sheet film.