The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life – A Bestselling Hollywood Memoir and Gold Standard of American Cinema Storytelling

The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life – A Bestselling Hollywood Memoir and Gold Standard of American Cinema Storytelling

by Robert Evans

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472 pages~7.9 hr readPublished by HyperionPublished 1994-09-08

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Perfect for you if...

  • You love behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories and want to know how iconic films actually got made.
  • You appreciate memoir writers who are brutally honest about their own flaws and failures.
  • You're fascinated by the golden age of cinema and the larger-than-life personalities who shaped it.

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  • You prefer feel-good, inspirational memoirs where the author emerges as the hero.
  • You want a tight, linear narrative; this jumps between decades and is deliberately digressive.
  • You're looking for recent industry gossip; this is a retrospective of someone's entire life through the 1990s.

About this book

Robert Evans' memoir chronicles his life and career in Hollywood. The book includes black-and-white photographs from Evans' personal archive and features a new introduction by Evans himself, who served as a legendary actor, producer, and studio chief. Evans recounts stories involving figures such as Ava Gardner, Marlon Brando, and Sharon Stone. The narrative balances self-aggrandizement with self-criticism as Evans discusses his involvement with films including The Odd Couple, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown. The memoir was adapted into an award-winning documentary film.

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