The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life [Paperback]

Robert Evans'The Kid Stays in the Pictureis universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.
 
With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans,The Kid Stays in the Pictureis driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel.
 
An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no one, least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone,The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Lifeis sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure.

This is a must-read for fans of American cinema and classics of the canon, includingThe Odd Couple,Rosemary’s Baby,Love Story,The Godfather, andChinatown.

Robert Evans'sThe Kid Stays in the Pictureis universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.

The only actor ever to run a Hollywood studio, Evans emerged from near-obscurity in the mid-1960s to rescue Paramount, one of the great studios of the Golden Age, from near-bankruptcy. A self-confessed half-assed actor, Evans proved a genius producer and studio chief, drawing on his irresistible combination of instinct, smarts, showmanship, and bravado to take Paramount from the basement to the penthouse with such films asThe Odd Couple,Rosemary's Baby,Love Story,The Godfather, andChinatown. He lived a swashbuckling life, partying with lifetime friends like Jal32