Robert Evans

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Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera; June 29, 1930 – October 26, 2019) was an American film producer and studio executive best known for his films on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown. Evans began his career with his brother, selling women's clothing.

He was by chance discovered by actress Norma Shearer, who felt it would be appropriate to play the role of her late husband Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces in 1956, who was on a business trip.

He began his film career as a student.

Evans decided to move into film production rather than clothing, amassing his fortune in the process, and the industry's boom began in 1962; he was first hired as the head of Paramount Pictures in 1967.

He boosted the failing Through a series of commercially and critically acclaimed films, he boosted the ailing Paragus' fortunes.

He stepped down in 1974 in order to produce films on his own. Evans' career and life suffered as a result of his cocaine trafficking convictions in 1980; in the ensuing ten years, he produced only two films, both financial and artistic flops: The Cotton Club and the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes.

He began producing films on a regular basis in 1993, with a mixed track record that included both flops (such as Jade in 1995) and hits (such as How to Lose a Guy in ten days in 2003, his final film role).

Personal life

Evans has married seven times. He first married Sharon Hugueny in 1961 and spent with her until 1962. Camilla Sparv (1964–1977), Ali MacGraw (1977–1973), Catherine Oxenberg (1977–2004), and Victoria White (2005–2006). After nine days, Evans' marriage to Oxenberg was called off. Victoria White O'Gara (widow of Lord White) married him in Mexico in August 2005, a few months after his 75th birthday. She applied for divorce on June 16, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for her divorce.

Josh Evans, Evans' first child, moved from marriage to MacGraw. Josh is a film director. In 2010, Josh and singer Roxy Saint had a son named Jackson.

Charles Evans (1926–2007), Evans' brother, was an apparel, real estate, advertising fire detectors, and, later, a film director (Tootsie, 1982, Monkey Shines 1988). Charles Evans, Jr., is a film director, and he is the nephew of a documentary filmmaker. Alice Shure, his sister, who appeared on Without a Trace (1983), has directed other films and founded documentary film production companies. Michael Shure, his nephew, is the Senior National Correspondent for i24NEWS. Nephew Tony Shure is the founder of Chopt Creative Salad Company.

Evans died after a dinner party to celebrate director Wes Craven, and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on May 6, 1998. In the ambulance, Evans was flatlined, but he was revived. He was left paralyzed on his right side and utterly unable to speak after suffering a string of three strokes in a snap. During his hospital stay, Sumner Redstone, a media mogul and friend, was compelled to concentrate on his speech and recovery. Frank Sinatra died in one of the adjoining rooms at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a few days after Evans' stroke. Evans said that seeing his body being taken away from him fueled his desire to recover.

Evans recovered his ability to talk and returned to producing. He used to relying on a cane for shorter walks and had limited mobility in 2013.

Evans died in Beverly Hills, California, on October 26, 2019, at the age of 89.

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Early life and acting career

Edward Evans was born in New York City, New York, the son of Florence (née Krasne), a housewife from a wealthy family, and Archie Shapera, a Harlem dentist. Both of his parents, he said, were "second-generation Jews." During the Great Depression, he grew up on New York City's Upper West Side, where he was much better off than most people living there. In his early years, he did promotional work for Evan-Picone, a clothing business founded by his brother Charles. He did a variety of voice jobs on radio after high school. He had a strong, deep voice as a child and a natural knack for foreign accents, according to his estimate, he appeared in more than 300 radio shows before he turned 18. This was a leading role on the Aldrich Family commotion.

He was discovered by actress Norma Shearer next to the pool at The Beverly Hills Hotel on November 6, 1956. In Man of a Thousand Faces, she successfully marketed him for the role of her late husband Irving Thalberg. Darryl F. Zanuck, who starred Pedro Romero in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in 1957, was also on the radar of Evans, against co-star Ava Gardner and Hemingway himself. He appeared in Twentieth Century Fox's production of The Best of Everything with Hope Lange, Diane Baker, and Joan Crawford in 1959.

Career as producer

Unsatisfied with his own acting abilities, he decided to become a producer. In 1968, Evans made his first attempt by purchasing the rights to a 1966 novel titled The Detective, which Evans turned into a film starring Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jack Klugman, Robert Duvall, and Jacqueline Bisset. Peter Bart, a writer for The New York Times, wrote an article about Evans's aggressive production style. Evans was noticed by Charles Bluhdorn, the executive of the Gulf+Western conglomerate, who recruited Evans as production vice president in 1966 as part of Paramount Pictures' shake-up (which also included Bart, whom Evans would not hire as a Paramount executive).

The floundering studio was the ninth largest when Evans took over as the head of Paramount's production. Despite his inexperience, Evans was able to turn the studio around. He made He made He made He converted He turned He turned He converted Paragua's most profitable studio in Hollywood and turned it into a very profitable business for Gulf+Western. During his Paramount tenure, the studio made films such as Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, True Grit, Love Story, Harold and Maude, The Godfather, Part II, Serpico, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Great Gatsby, and many others.

Evans, dissatisfied with his financial compensation and wanting to produce films under his own banner, reached an agreement with Paramount in 1972 that enabled him to continue as executive vice president of worldwide production while also working as an independent producer on five films. Evans had an unfair advantage over other Paramount producers. After the huge critical and commercial success of Evans-produced Chinatown, he resigned as production chief, allowing him to produce films on his own. With Marathon Man, Black Sunday, Popeye, and Urban Cowboy, he continued his streak of hit films from 1976 to 1980, as an independent producer. His film output increased and less acclaimed after 1980. Over the next twelve years, he made only two films: The Cotton Club and The Two Jakes. From 1993 to 2003, he produced the films Sliver, Jade, The Saint, and How to Lose a Guy in ten Days.

In the 2003 animated film Kid Notorious, Evans created and performed the voice for his eponymous character. In 2004, Evans hosted In Bed with Robert Evans on Sirius Satellite Radio. Evans was in talks to produce a film starring auto executive John DeLorean, as well as an HBO miniseries titled The Devil and Sidney Korshak. Neither scheme came to fruition.

Paraphrased Because of his inability, Evans had a three-year-old staff and was working from his Woodland Hills estate.

By cocaine dealer Karen Greenberger (aka Lanie Jacobs), Evans was introduced to theatrical impresario Roy Radin, a tour guide and comedy revues, in the early 1980s. Radin was attempting to break into film with a film about the Cotton Club, the legendary nightclub in New York. The film was produced by a consortium of actors The Cotton Club required Evans and Radin to form a production company in which each of the two actors would own 45% of the film, with the remaining 10% split between the two other groups remaining. Radin charged Greenberger (aka Jacobs) a $50,000 finder's fee for her efforts, which she found unsatisfactory.

The 33-year-old Radin was murdered in 1983 when The Cotton Club film financing was being dealt with. William Mentzer, a contract killer, was one of four people fined for firing Radin multiple times in the head and using dynamite to make identification by authorities more difficult. Karen Greenberger was found guilty of second-degree murder and kidnapping at the time. Her involvement was said to have arisen from a fear of being kicked out of a producer's position and potential Cotton Club revenues. As a result, Radin's murder court case was dubbed the "Cotton Club" murder trial.

Evans declined to appear at a preliminary hearing in May 1989 on his attorney Robert Shapiro's recommendation that he refrain from incriminating himself. According to police reports, Evans was involved in the Radin murder. At least two witnesses stated that he was authorized to obtain search warrants.

Evans was not involved in the assassination of Greenberger, a 1991 trial. She also admitted that she was Evans' lover during her appeal.

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