Greg Bautzer, Dana Wynter, Mark Bautzer
Bautzer in the early ’70s with wife Wynter and their son Mark, now 53.
Robert Evans, Ali MacGraw
Evans danced with his wife, actress Ali MacGraw, at the Godfather premiere.
Ava Gardner, Greg Bautzer
Actress Ava Gardner and Bautzer in June 1947. Joan Crawford was jealous of their relationship.
Greg Bautzer, William Wilkerson, Joe Schenck
Bautzer (right) with two of his mentors: THR publisher William Wilkerson (left) and Fox chairman Joe Schenck.
Ginger Rogers, Greg Bautzer
Bautzer out on the town with Rogers.
Joan Crawford, Greg Bautzer
Bautzer and Joan Crawford arrived at the famed nightclub Ciro’s in 1948 in a Cadillac she gave him.
The Brown Derby
To get noticed, Bautzer frequented The Brown Derby, a power lunch spot at Hollywood and Vine.
Lana Turner, Greg Bautzer
Bautzer had coffee with girlfriend Turner in 1940 at The Brown Derby.
Sidney Korshak
Labor lawyer Korshak, who allegedly had mob ties, testified in D.C. in 1957.
Howard Hughes
Hughes was Bautzer's most powerful client. In B. James Gladstone's The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown’s Most Powerful Lawyer, the author details Bautzer’s complex and fascinating relationship with Hughes, from the early 1950s to the reclusive magnate’s death in 1976, a period that included the buying and selling of RKO Pictures, a failed 1968 takeover of ABC and his million-dollar marriage offer to Elizabeth Taylor (which Bautzer conveyed).
Charles Bluhdorn
G+W CEO Bluhdorn in 1967.
Robert Evans
Evans at a meeting in 1968, soon after taking over as head of production at Paramount.
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