Hollywood lost one of its most respected lawmen when Burt Fields died on August 7, aged 93. Looking back on his six-decade legal career, which included Jeffrey Katzenberg a nine-figure sum from Disney acquisition, helping actor Edward Robinson to escape. Degas painting from his house at midnight and portraying the biggest and most famous people in show business – it’s hard to imagine Fields doing anything else.
But after the death of his second wife in the mid-1980s, he almost switched to studio production. “I was sad at the time and my studio-owning friends thought a change would be good for me,” he said. THR In a broad 2019 interview for his “Power Lawyers: Legal Legends” profile. “I thought for a long time, but I had a lot of fun as a lawyer. I would probably be a bad studio manager. ”
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Source: Hollywood Reporter
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