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During his tenure at Paramount, the studio turned out films such as Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Italian Job, True Grit, Love Story, Harold and Maude, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Serpico, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Save the Tiger, The Conversation, Chinatown, The Great Gatsby ...
- Robert J. Shapera, June 29, 1930, New York City, U.S.
- Josh Evans
- 1952–2016
- Ferncliff Cemetery
Apr 29, 2022 · Evans, who died in 2019, is now being remembered anew in The Offer, a glossy Paramount+ series about the bumpy making of The Godfather. He’s cheekily portrayed by Matthew Goode, whose slick...
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- Did the mob protest against the making of The Godfather? In The Offer, the mafia is insulted by the portrayal of Italian Americans in Mario Puzo’s novel.
- Did Frank Sinatra almost beat up Mario Puzo over The Godfather? There’s a moment in the first episode of The Offer in which Mario Puzo (Patrick Gallo) spots Frank Sinatra (Frank John Hughes) at a Hollywood restaurant and decides to tell him how much he means to him.
- Did Robert Evans not want to hire Al Pacino for The Godfather because of his height? Throughout The Offer, Paramount Studio head Robert Evans argues that Francis Ford Coppola can’t cast Al Pacino (Anthony Ippolito) as the lead in The Godfather because he’s too short.
- Did Mario Puzo send Marlon Brando a letter asking him to star in The Godfather? In The Offer, Mario Puzo sends Marlon Brando (played by Grey’s Anatomy’s Justin Chambers) a letter asking him if he’d be interested in playing Don Corleone.
Robert Evans, who had a long and very storied career as both a studio head and producer at Paramount Pictures, died last Saturday at age 89. As a studio executive, he oversaw "The...
Evans righted his career with a new Paramount deal in the 1990s, with his last producing credit having been on the blockbuster romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003). He died on October 26, 2019.
- June 29, 1930
- October 26, 2019
Jun 12, 2022 · The limited series tells the tall Hollywood tale of how Evans — along with Albert Ruddy, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola and a number of other film luminaries — helped take The Godfather from...
In the late 1960s and early '70s, he became the quintessential "new Hollywood" executive, with: slickly packaged productions like Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970) and The Godfather (1972) revived Paramount.
