{"id":51530,"date":"2019-10-30T04:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=51530"},"modified":"2019-10-31T04:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:37:25","slug":"robert-evans-storied-producer-of-godfather-and-chinatown-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/robert-evans-storied-producer-of-godfather-and-chinatown-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Evans, storied producer of \u2018Godfather\u2019 and \u2018Chinatown,\u2019 dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Robert Evans, the Hollywood producer behind a string of classic films who fell prey to \u2014 and then recovered from \u2014 a cocaine addiction, has died at 89.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, born Robert Shapera in Manhattan in 1930, was a women\u2019s pants salesman when he was discovered at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool by actress Norma Shearer, who hired him to play her late husband in the 1957 movie \u201cMan of a Thousand Faces,\u201d The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cThe kid stays in the picture\u201d was originally said about him, after Ernest Hemingway objected to Evans\u2019 being cast as a bullfighter in the film adaptation of \u201cThe Sun Also Rises.\u201d Evans later used the line as the title for his memoir.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966, he was hired to run production at Paramount, where he produced a series of iconic films, including \u201cRosemary\u2019s Baby\u201d (1968), \u201cLove Story\u201d (1970), \u201cThe Godfather\u201d (1972), and \u201cChinatown\u201d (1974). He also used to hang out with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, his star fell after he pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in 1980 and was embroiled in a trial over the 1983 murder of Roy Radin, a film investor. One of his girlfriends was eventually among the people convicted for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Evans eventually returned to producing films. His last movie as a full producer was the 2003 successful romantic comedy \u201cHow to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Robert%20Evans%2C%20storied%20producer%20of%20%E2%80%98Godfather%E2%80%99%20and%20%E2%80%98Chinatown%2C%E2%80%99%20dies%20at%2089\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[10277,10276,8790,8795,6780,8788,10275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51531,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51530\/revisions\/51531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}