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Robert Mitchum marijuana arrest...
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September 02, 1948
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, MI Michigan, September 2, 1948
* Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum
* Marijuana possession arrest
This 30 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "Dope Arrest Wrecks Career, Says Actor" and "Agents, Posing as Dogs, Seize Mitchum, 3 Others and Marijuana".
Report continues on page 2 with related photos. (see)
Tells of the arrest of Actor Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds for marijuana possession.
Other news of the day throughout. Some browning and small binding holes along the spine, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: On September 1, 1948, after a string of successful films for RKO, Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds were arrested for possession of marijuana. The arrest was the result of a sting operation designed to capture other Hollywood partiers as well, but Mitchum and Leeds did not receive the tip-off. After serving a week at the county jail, Mitchum spent 43 days (February 16 to March 30) at a Castaic, California, prison farm, with Life magazine photographers right there snapping photos of him mopping up in his prison uniform.[3] The arrest became the inspiration for the exploitation film She Shoulda Said No! (1949), which starred Leeds. The arrest did little to affect Mitchum's career in the long term, but was seen as an embarrassment by his studio, who ordered Mitchum to clean up his act. The conviction was later overturned by the Los Angeles court and District Attorney's office on January 31, 1951, with the following statement, after it was exposed as a set-up:
"After an exhaustive investigation of the evidence and testimony presented at the trial, the court orders that the verdict of guilty be set aside and that a plea of not guilty be entered and that the information or complaint be dismissed."
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