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From Wikipedia: Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to shipyard and railroad worker James Thomas Mitchum and Ann Harriet Gunderson, a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain’s daughter. His father was a former soldier and known barroom brawler of Scots-Irish ancestry (on his father’s side) and Blackfoot descent (on his mother’s side). James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident when Mitchum was eighteen months old, leaving Ann to find work as a linotype operator at a newspaper.

Throughout Robert’s childhood, he was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and pranks. When he was 12, Ann sent Robert to live with his grandparents in Felton, Delaware, where he was promptly expelled from his middle school for scuffling with a principal. A year later, in 1930, he moved in with his older sister, waitress and stage actress Julie (originally Annette) Mitchum, in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. After being expelled from Haaran High School, he left his sister and traveled throughout the country on railroad cars, taking a number of jobs including a ditch-digger for the Civilian Conservation Corps and a professional boxer. He experienced numerous adventures during his years as one of the Depression era’s “wild boys of the road.” In Savannah, Georgia he was arrested for vagrancy and put on a local chain gang. By Mitchum’s own account he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware. It was during this time, while recovering from injuries that nearly lost him a leg, that he met the woman he would marry, a teenaged Dorothy Spence. He soon went back on the road, eventually riding the rails to California.
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