The Kid Stays in the Picture

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The Kid Stays in the Picture is the name of a 1994 autobiography by film producer Robert Evans.

It is also the name of a 2002 motion picture adaptation of the same book directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen and released by Focus Features and USA Pictures.

The book chronicles Evans' rise from childhood to radio star to film star to production chief of Paramount Pictures to independent producer, his marriage to Ali MacGraw and his downfall including his 1980 Cocaine bust and implication in the murder of Roy Radin, aka "The Cotton Club Murder" and his banishment from Paramount Pictures, and his return to the studio in the early 1990s.

A revised edition of the book, published in 1995, adds several chapters of new material, including material on his projects after his return to Paramount Pictures.

The film version, released in 2002, utilizes Evans' narration interspersed with film footage from films such as The Sun Also Rises, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Godfather, along with interviews and photographs from Evans' life, to tell the story from his discovery by Norma Shearer for Man of a Thousand Faces, to his return to Paramount Pictures. Many elements from the book, according to the commentary by directors Burstein and Morgen on the DVD, such as Evans' childhood and his other marriages (the film focuses only on his marriage to Ali MacGraw) were dropped because they felt that it did not move the story along.