Peter Bogdanovich, with whom Robert Evans collaborated on 'Paper Moon' and 'Daisy Miller,' reflects on the titanic producer's career
, the legendary head of Paramount Pictures and larger-than-life producer of “Chinatown” and “Marathon Man,” died Saturday at the age of 89. An aspiring actor, the tan and good-looking Evans claimed that actor Norma Shearer spotted him poolside and asked him to play her former husband, the legendary MGM exec Irving Thalberg, in the film “Man of a Thousand Faces.” As an actor, Evans never achieved great things.
I loved Bob. He was friendly and amiable and charming. He was a movie fan too. It’s rare to have executives that really like movies. Not all executives are like that. He was really enthusiastic, and he encouraged talent. He was good Hollywood, not bad Hollywood. Peter Bart was his associate, and I said, ‘I want to shoot it in black and white.’ And he said, ‘Here we go again.’ [Ed. note: ‘The Last Picture Show’ was filmed in black and white.] I never heard another word. They got it. Bob was chic, and I told him that with Ryan and Tatum [O’Neal] it would look like a Disney movie. They were blue-eyed and blonde-haired, and this was Depression-era Kansas. He understood.
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