Dorothy Spence Mitchum, the wife of actor Robert Mitchum for 57 years, died Saturday at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara. She was 94. She met Mitchum, who was two years her elder, in Delaware when she was 14 years of age after a brief courtship with his younger brother, John. She was Dorothy Clements Spence in the those days, and the two were married in 1940, before she turned 21. They headed to Hollywood where the actor, who died in 1997 at the age of 79, eventually became one of the industry's most celebrated stars. Before that, however, the newlyweds...
- 4/16/2014
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
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