Vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint pen in the 1950s with a reference to some personal activity with the person to whom it was inscribed: "Calere-- It was a ball! Bob Mitchum." In fine condition for its age, with a light diagonal crease to the lower left-hand corner, slightly breaking the surface of the image, and gentle edgewear. Rough and tough leading man Robert Mitchum excelled at conveying tremendous emotion beneath an air of cool disinterest. After his Oscar-nominated turn in Story of G.I. Joe (1945), he achieved icon status in noir, western and romance flicks of the 1940s and 1950s. Among his many classic film credits, he was unforgettable as two of the silver screen's most chilling psychopaths: Harry Powell in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) and Max Cady in Cape Fear (1961).

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