138. Six Degrees of Robert Evans | The Kid to 1956
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
For the next few weeks, we are leaving Newport to visit the West Coast, to investigate the incredible life, times, and connections of Robert Evans, a film legend, who was already getting around long before he made his entrance in Hollywood.
This first episode of this ‘Six Degrees’ series focuses on Evans’ early years, including appearances from Mike Todd, Dick van Patten, and John F. Kennedy, among other surprise guests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, |
| 0:05.9 | All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear, but it all does connect in the universe of our man, Nick. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to Six Degrees of Robert Evans, investigators. |
| 0:19.6 | Who is Robert Evans? |
| 0:22.4 | Perhaps you may be asking. |
| 0:24.2 | Six degrees of who? |
| 0:27.5 | We are going to have some fun in the next few episodes. |
| 0:32.9 | They're writing some stories through the intersection of high society and Hollywood. |
| 0:38.9 | This for many a decade was the universe that Dominic Dunn belonged to. |
| 0:44.6 | Robert Evans is right up in the middle of all of it. |
| 0:47.7 | And you think Dominic Dunn tells good stories. |
| 0:54.2 | Robert Evans is the guy who tells Dominic in 1973, after his last film, Ash Wednesday, and Dunn's verbal misstep that happens over Sue Mangers, |
| 1:02.3 | Robert Evans is the guy who breaks it to Dominic Dunn that his career is over in Hollywood. |
| 1:08.7 | He's over. |
| 1:10.6 | Both Dominic and Robert Evans have alternate and varying arcs in the years before and after |
| 1:18.6 | this 1973 incident. |
| 1:21.2 | But wow, they are connected through time in a lot of ways. |
| 1:26.5 | Before we get too far into the story of Robert Evans, |
| 1:30.5 | I do want to give some big thanks to some kind friends out there, |
| 1:34.0 | our newest supporters over at patreon.com slash done and done. |
| 1:38.9 | Big love to Tracy and Linda and Daisy. |
| 1:43.4 | Thank you so, so much for your support over on Patreon friends. |
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