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Robert Evans
Age: 79
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Jun. 29th, 1930
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BIOGRAPHY: Raised on Manhattan's upper west side (his father was a dentist with a thriving practice in Harlem), Evans began his show-business career as a teenage radio act or. After flopping in his first attempt at movie acting, he took a job promoting sales of ladies' slacks for Evan-Picone, the clothing company founded and run by his brother. Some years later, Norma Shearer spotted him hanging around the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel; she successfully touted him for the role of Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). In a New York nightclub, Evans also caught the eye of Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast him as a bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises (1957). By the end of the fifties, Evans writes, "I was sure of one thing: I was a half-assed actor." He determined to recast himself as a producer. Before launching his first picture, though, he was hired by Charles Bluhdorn, head of the Gulf + Western conglomerate, as part of a shakeup of Paramount Pictures.
Within months Evans was head of production. In the late sixties and early seventies he became the quintessential "new Hollywood" executive: slickly packaged productions like Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970) and The Godfather (1972) revived Paramount. (The latter film and Chinatown (1974) are the artistic highlights of Evans' Param ount career, though the amount of credit he deserves for them has been debated for decades.) Eased out of Paramount, he saw The Cotton Club (1984) turn from a musical "Godfather" into a fiasco of front-page proportions. Evans righted his career with a new Paramount deal in the nineties.
TRIVIA:
- Was implicated but never charged in the murder of theatrical impresario 'Roy Radin' (qv), in the so-called "Cotton Club Murder." Evans, who was producing _The Cotton Club (1984)_ (qv), has been in contact with Radin as a potential investor in the film.
- One child, with 'Ali MacGraw' (qv), actor/director 'Josh Evans (I)' (qv).
- Celebrity attorney 'Robert Shapiro (III)' (qv) celebrated his 50th birthday at the estate.
- Attended Super Bowl (I) with friend 'Clint Eastwood' (qv) in 1967
- Was the inspiration for the Stanley Motss character played by 'Dustin Hoffman' (qv) in _Wag the Dog (1997)_ (qv). Hoffman emulated Evans' work habits, mannerisms, quirks, his clothing style, hairstyle, and wore large square-framed eyeglasses. After seeing the film, Evans reportedly said, "I'm magnificent in this film!".
- His autobiography, "The Kid Stays in the Picture", printed in 12 languages, and its film version premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Jan., 2002.
- His seventh wife, Lady Victoria White, filed for divorce on June 16, 2006 citing irreconcilable differences (June 21, 2006).
- His 1998 marriage to 'Catherine Oxenberg' (qv) lasted only ten days.
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