Robert Evans, the producer and studio chief who resurrected Paramount Pictures in the 1960s, has died at age 89
On the other end of the success spectrum, Evans plummeted from the peak of his powers into a self-admitted paranoid haze of cocaine addiction and personal destruction., the documentary about his career , Evans was asked what single thing he would change about his life. "The second half," he answered.
Evans also was associated with but never directly implicated in a hit-style murder surrounding his six-year obsession/odyssey to bring to the screen, a project he ultimately renounced after an internecine war with director Francis Ford Coppola. The son of a dentist, Evans was born Robert J. Shapera on New York's Upper West Side on June 29, 1930. He took early acting courses but went into the fashion business, partnering with his older brother Charles in the company Evan-Picone, which is credited with making pants fashionable for women.
While visiting Los Angeles to open an Evan-Picone boutique, Evans was spotted at the Beverly Hills Hotel's pool by actress Norma Shearer, who recruited him to play MGM studio head Irving Thalberg opposite James Cagney as Lon Chaney in 1957'sEvans quickly became known in Hollywood, but his lack of an acting background ruffled feathers.
Evans, though, never considered acting a serious venture. With cash in his pocket from the Evan-Picone sale, he became intent on producing and pursued rights to literary material.from first-time novelist Roderick Thorp. It went on to become a best-seller as Evans sold the rights to Fox and landed Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick and Jacqueline Bisset to star in a 1968 film adaptation.
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