Don Adler

## Biography

### Summary

Don Adler was the second husband of Evelyn Hugo in the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. He is a fictional character, fictional actor and fictional superstar. they were married between 1957-1959. He was described in their marriage as the *Prince of Hollywood*, he was very close with *Ari Sullivan* until the mid-sixties, when he was dropped from *Sunset Studios* and his career has gone downhill rapidly. Until 1975, when he acted in *Three A.M* with Evelyn Hugo once more, directed by Max Girard and he won an Oscar for it. He died sometime between 1980-2017.

### Young life

Don Adler (Born Donald Alder) was born sometime in 1931 to Hollywood Silent Film Actors Mary and Roger Adler. Not much is known about Don's upbringing apart from the fact he has *Been an Actor for Longer than Evelyn has been alive.* Which means his career started definitely before 1938 (When Evelyn Hugo was born) he was a baby in one of his mother's silent films, but apart from that. Not much is known.

#### Evelyn Hugo

Don rose to fame in the early 1950's at Sunset Studios, ran by Ari Sullivan, who Don was close friends with. In no time at all, Don was known as the *Prince of Hollywood*.

He met Evelyn in 1956, after she had just shot *Father and Daughter* with *Ed Baker*. Don buys Evelyn flowers on their first date, talking about how great she was in the early cut he saw of her in *Father and Daughter*. The two of them go to Mocambo, one of the hottest dating spots for couples at the time and they both fall for one another madly. They arrange another date for Friday night, which goes into the *Sub Rosa* as them as a couple, making crowds go wild.

Over the months, Don and Evelyn were seen together many times, going on dates with one another and the public were in love with them.

Don proposes to Evelyn in March of 1957, to which she says yes and they are wed in that year together. Evelyn speaks that they had a *beautiful wedding, with over 300 guests.* Ruby was Evelyn's maid of honour. They were in love at their wedding.

It was two months before Don started hitting her.

Whilst Don and Evelyn were shooting *One More day in Puerto Vallarta*, Don's last movie, *The Gun Point at Dune,* had not done so well and people said he was *"No John Wayne." "Adler looks like a fool holding a gun"* Don lashes out at Evelyn for not making him breakfast, whilst on the way to work, he snaps at her about her not changing her stage name (even though her name is legally Evelyn Adler).

Don tells Evelyn to have kids and to stop acting for a while, which Evelyn declines (good for Evelyn) and Don hits her around the fact sharply. When their wardrobe man comes to the room, Evelyn makes up a lie to get him to go away. Don and the man both go away, when Don later apologises to Evelyn, this would not be the last time that he hit her.

Over the months, Evelyn told Don that she didn't think she wanted a family, gets hit once more. Don pushes Evelyn into the wall about their marriage, pushes her out of the car when she snaps at him, Don calling her parents *trash from Long Island.* Evelyn, bravely, snaps back saying *I'm from Hells Kitchen, you asshole.* Don pushes her out of the parked car. He comes crawling to her in the morning, crying his eyes out and apologising fakely to her. But Evelyn is just used to it by now.

Nine days before Evelyn started Little Women, Don pushed her down the stairs and pretended to care if she was hurt or not. Evelyn's maid Paula, saw the bruising on her back from the fall that Don had pushed her down the staircase.

Don's new movie, *People of Montgomery County,* was top of the game once more and he was winning once more. He offers to get Celia St. James kicked off Little Women but Evelyn declines the offer.

On the *Sub Rosa*, calling Evelyn cold and callous for not giving Don a baby, calling Don an unsatisfied and Evelyn cold, when Evelyn reads this she has an idea to fake a miscarriage. Evelyn gets a call from the doctor, which Paula answers, the doctor fakely tells about the miscarriage to Paula, Evelyn sobs on the phone fakely, Don fires Paula loudly, and she runs to the Sub Rosa, which works and Don and Evelyn are back on top once more.

Don catches Evelyn and Celia in the bedroom, whilst Celia is taking her top off. Don thinking nothing of it, but secretly this is when Evelyn develops her crush on Celia. Don and Evelyn go to the Little Women premiere, Don calling Evelyn beautiful at the place and telling her that she'll win (even though Celia is definite to win). Don and Evelyn look like the perfect married couple, Don pushing away a reporter about the family situation of them not having a baby. Don tells Evelyn to get over Celia, as if Evelyn has nothing important to say. When Evelyn squeezes Celia's hand in the audience, Don rolls his eyes and hits her later in the night.

At Ari Sullivan's mansion, Don and a girl from MGM go up to the master bedroom where the girl gives Don a blow job. Ruby Reilley sees this and in a cold way, tells Evelyn. who finds Don and the girls and this is when their marriage was over. Evelyn runs out and Don tries to catch up to her but she gets into the car with Harry Cameron instead.

Don tries to get Evelyn gone from Sunset Studios, divorcing her at the end of 1959. He got her removed from Sunset Studios and had three movies lined up, being on the cover of *Life*.

##### Ruby Reilley/Three A.M

After his divorce from Evelyn, two years later, Don and Ruby Reilley get engaged in the October of 1961. They got married and he continued to hit Ruby like the way Don hit Evelyn.

In the Sixties and Seventies, Don and Ruby get divorced and Don's career begins to go down the drain, Ari dumps him from Sunset Studios the second his movies are not getting the reception that Ari and Don both want them to get, Don is not getting many movies anymore because newer viewers honestly have no idea who he is.

In 1975, Don got a chance with *Max Girard* to play in *Three A.M* with *Evelyn Hugo* once more. Playing Mark, a drug addict in love with Evelyn's character, Patricia.

after Don's career had gone down the drain, he looked thinner in 1975 than some of his recent photos. his face had bloated, his waist line had widened, but he was still more handsome than most of the people in the bar. Evelyn calls him a drunk, cheater and a pig (which he is) and Don agrees. He tells her that he is sober now, but Evelyn snaps back and tells him that if he was still as famous as he was, he would still be drunk and a pig. Which Don agrees about. Don tells Evelyn he loved her and that he was sorry for hitting her fifteen years ago, and he wanted to go back to her. But Evelyn realises she did not, and that she loved her life now. Evelyn shows Don pictures of Connor (Evelyn's daughter) which Don tells Evelyn that she looks just like her.

They did loads of shooting on *Three A.M*, with eventually doing the sex scene which both Evelyn and Don did together. They did real, raw sex. Reckless sex. Don won an Oscar for this movie, which Evelyn did not. She did not win an oscar even though she was perfect in it.

###### Death.

Not much is known about Don from this point on but it is known that he passed away sometime between 1975-2017.