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All All. Sign In. Robert J. His family was of Russian Jewish descent. He was raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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He began his show-business career as a teenage radio actor. 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 Zanuck , who cast him as a bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises By the end of the fifties, Evans writes, "I was sure of one thing: I was a half-assed actor.

Within months Evans was head of production. In the late s and early '70s, he became the quintessential "new Hollywood" executive, with: slickly packaged productions like Rosemary's Baby , Love Story and The Godfather revived Paramount.