Robert Evans

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Robert Evans (born Robert Shapera; June 29, 1930 – October 26, 2019) was an American film producer, studio executive, and actor who worked on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974). Evans began his career in a successful business venture with his brother Charles Evans, selling women's apparel. In 1956, while on a business trip, he was spotted by actress Norma Shearer "poolside at the Beverly Hilton"; Shearer thought he would be right to play the role of her late husband Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). Thus he began a brief film acting career. In 1962, Evans went into film producing instead, using his accumulated wealth from the clothing business, and began a meteoric rise in the industry. Receiving a break based on a friendship, Evans was named as Paramount Pictures' vice-president in charge of production in 1966, and executive vice president over worldwide production in 1969. While there, he improved the ailing Paramount...

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