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Henry Warren Beaty
- Claim that his birth name had only one t from IMDB bio.
- E!Online bio disagrees.
- Moviedose bio agrees with IMDB.
- Amburn bio agrees. (p. 2, "he added the extra "t" when he became an actor")
(born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia)
- IMDB
now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director.
- Self-evident, from rest of article.
He long had a reputation as a womanizer and playboy,
- IMDB; "Beatty is almost as famous for his love life as he is for his movie-making"
but that reputation has faded since his 1992 marriage.
- allmovie.com; "Beatty's ... history of high-profile romances ... came to an abrupt end upon his 1992 marriage" - Not sure how convicing this is...
The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000,
- Academy's database.
presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson,
- Caption on photograph at muzi.com "Warren Beatty is presented the Irving Thalberg Award by Jack Nicholson"
while in 2004 he received Kennedy Center Honor.
- Offical site list of past honoress

Beatty was born to an American father whose family had lived in Virginia for several centuries,
- Amburn bio backs up most of this: p. 2 "Ira Owens Beaty [Warren's father] a boozer from Front Royal, a small town in Virginia"
and a Canadian mother
- Amburn bio; p. 2 "marrying a quiet, thin Canadian"
of half Scottish and half Irish descent;
- Unreferenced.
the family was devoutly Baptist.
- adherents.com claims "Warren Beatty was raised in a devout, churchgoing Baptist family.", and gives the source as "Ellis Amburn, The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty, HarperCollins Publishers: New York (2002), page 3."; book source not verified yet.
- Amburn bio confirmed: p. 3 "settled for respectable middle-class Baptist family life." and "a strict Baptist atmosphere".
His sister is Shirley MacLaine.
- IMDB, and many others.
Beatty got his start in film under Elia Kazan's direction and opposite Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- IMDB, and others.
though he had previous television experience in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959).
- IMDB
At age 30 he achieved critical acclaim and power as a producer and star of Bonnie and Clyde (1967),
- age self-evident, IMDB; "the movie that would elevate his status in Hollywood, the classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967)", listed as a producer on IMDB page for the movie.
which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
- Count of list on IMDB page for the movie.

Subsequent Beatty films include McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Parallax View (1974), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
- IMDB.
The last film gave him the box-office power he hadn't had since Bonnie & Clyde.
- Amburn bio mostly supports this: p. 229 "his least venturesome film [Heaven Can Wait] became one of his most successful"
He used this to make Reds (1981),
- Unreferenced
Reds (1981), a historical epic about famed Communist journalist John Reed in the Russian Revolution. It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role while losing Best Picture to Chariots of Fire. It was nominated for eight other Oscars
- Wikipedia article Reds (which should contain sources for these assertions, but doesn't, AFAIK, as of 06:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC))
joined a handful of films to win Best Director but not Best Picture.
- Unreferenced - that is, the fact that only a "handful" of films have won Best Director but not won Best Picture is unreferenced.
Other critically acclaimed works include Bugsy (1991)
- Unreferenced (can probably be checked from the wikipedia articles)
and Bulworth (1998).
- Unreferenced (can probably be checked from the wikipedia articles)
Beatty is the only person other than Orson Welles to receive Oscar nominations in the same year for acting, directing, writing, and producing, and he did it twice, in 1978 and 1981.
- Unreferenced - I suppose this could be verified by checking the Oscar lists, but I hope someone else said it that we can quote...

Beatty's career as a ladies' man has been marked by a series of well-publicized romances,
- IMDB.
Cher
- IMDB.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Madonna
- IMDB and E!Online.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Isabelle Adjani
- E!Online.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Carol Alt
- Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, pp. 349, 424.
Justine Bateman
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Candice Bergen
- IMDB.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Entertainment Weekly
Maria Callas
- Unreferenced
Judy Carne
- Unreferenced
Leslie Caron
- IMDB.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
- Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
Julie Christie
- IMDB and E!Online.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
- Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
Connie Chung
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Joan Collins
- IMDB and E!Online.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Catherine Deneuve
- Unreferenced
Janice Dickinson
- Unreferenced
Faye Dunaway
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Britt Ekland
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Jane Fonda
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Melanie Griffith
- Unreferenced
Daryl Hannah
- Unreferenced
Goldie Hawn
- IMDB.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Entertainment Weekly
Brooke Hayward
- Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, pp. 349, 424.
Lillian Hellman
- Amburn bio cites: Blair Sobol, former Village Voice reporter, interviewed by Ellis Amburn.
Margaux Hemingway
- Unreferenced
Barbara Hershey
- Amburn bio cites: Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel, and Joanne Parrent, You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, Beverly Hills, California: Dove, 1995, p. xvii
Kate Jackson
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Bianca Jagger
- Unreferenced
Diane Keaton
- IMDB and E!Online.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, p. 350
Elle Macpherson
- IMDB.
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Entertainment Weekly
Princess Margaret
- Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, p. 350
- Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
Linda McCartney
- Unreferenced
Joni Mitchell
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Michelle Phillips
- Yahoo! Movies bio
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
- Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
Diana Ross
- Unreferenced
Jessica Savitch
- Unreferenced
Diane Sawyer
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Stephanie Seymour
- Unreferenced
Carly Simon
- IMDB.
(whose song "You're So Vain" is thought by many to be representing him,
- IMDB.
although Simon has never confirmed or denied this),
- Unreferenced
Inger Stevens
- Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
Barbra Streisand
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Mary Tyler Moore
- Unreferenced
Liv Ullmann
- IMDB.
Mamie Van Doren
- Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
Lana Wood
- Unreferenced
Natalie Wood
- E!Online, Yahoo! Movies bio
Susannah York
- Amburn bio cites: Jeannette Walls, Dish, New York: Avon, 2000 p. 127
(Unlisted in the article, yet:
- Bridget Bardot
  - Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
- Moore
  - Amburn bio cites: Kate Myers and Benjamin Svetkey, "News and Notes: Warren Gets Pregnant," Enterntainment Weekly
- Jean Seberg
  - Amburn bio cites: Jeannette Walls, Dish, New York: Avon, 2000 p. 127
- Dayle Haddon
  - Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, pp. 349, 424.
- Robin Menken
  - Amburn bio cites: David Thomson, Desert Eyes, p. 368
- Dewi Sukarno
  - Amburn bio cites: Playgirl, June 1975.
- Vanessa Redgrave
  - Amburn bio cites: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library (Robin Adams Sloan, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Warren Beatty file, May 4, 1975), and Henry Ehrlich, "Warren and Julie: Together at Last," Look, June 1, 1971, p. 74
)
He settled down at 55, marrying Annette Bening
his co-star in the gangster film Bugsy, in 1992.
They have four children together: Kathlyn (b. 1992), Benjamin (b. 1994), Isabel (b. 1997) and Ella Corinne (b. April 8, 2000).
- IMDB.
Beatty is the younger brother of actress and writer Shirley MacLaine.
- Repeated fact, see above.
Though perhaps not respected for his acting ability as much as some of his contemporaries,
- Unreferenced
Beatty has played a wide range of characters to critical acclaim and
- Unreferenced
has always involved himself heavily in the production of his movies.
- Unreferenced

In May 2005, Beatty sued Tribune Co.
- AP story on Tracy suit: "May 17, 2005 ... Warren Beatty wants to make a new movie featuring the comic book detective but has been thwarted by Tribune Media Services, which claims control over Tracy's character. / Beatty, in response, has sued the Chicago-based company for $30 million, saying Tribune violated a complex agreement regarding the Tracy rights."
for 30 million dollars in damages,
- ibid.
claiming he still maintains the rights to Dick Tracy (1990).
- AP story on Tracy suit: Implied from other quotes.
Beatty received the rights in 1985
- AP story on Tracy suit: "Under the 1985 agreement, Beatty took control of the Tracy character"
claiming that 17 years later Tribune moved to reclaim them in violation of various notification procedures.
- AP story on Tracy suit: "In 2002, according to Beatty's lawsuit filed Friday in Superior Court, Tribune took back control of Tracy and notified Disney but not through the process outlined in the agreement."
Dick Tracy grossed over $100 million dollars upon its release in 1990,
- Wikipedia article Dick Tracy (film).
making it the highest grossing film of Beatty's career.
- Unreferenced
There are also rumors that he plans to make a sequel.
- AP story on Tracy suit: 1st quote above.

Politics edit

A longtime activist in various liberal political causes
Beatty has, at various times, been extremely active in the presidential politics of the Democratic Party.

In 1968, he hit the campaign trail for the first time,
supporting Senator Robert F. Kennedy's bid for his party's presidential nomination.
His involvement in the senator's campaign, which included stump speaking and fundraising,
was cut short when Kennedy was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan on the same night that he won a crucial primary in California.
- See Wikipedia article on Robert F. Kennedy.

Four years later, Beatty joined the campaign of Senator George McGovern as an advisor.
- IMDB.
As part of the so-called "Malibu Mafia," a group of Hollywood celebrities who were part of the candidate's "inner circle,"
Beatty gave McGovern's campaign manager Gary Hart advice about the handling of public relations
and was instrumental in organizing a series of rock concerts
which raised over $1 million for the senator's campaign.

In 1984, [Beatty was to play a similar role in Hart's own presidential campaigns]
and again in 1988, Beatty was to play a similar role in Hart's own presidential campaigns.
- Yahoo! Movies bio. "served as an unofficial advisor in Gary Hart's ill-fated 1988 bid"
Hart, who had, by that time, become a senator himself,
- Wikipedia article Gary Hart.
[Hart] had become friends with Beatty during the 1972 campaign and the relationship had grown closer during the intervening decade.
After Hart's second campaign imploded over allegations that he had committed adultery with a former beauty queen named Donna Rice,
- Wikipedia article Gary Hart.
a mutual friend of the two explained why they were so close: "Gary always wanted to have Warren's life and Warren always wanted to have Gary's. It was a match made in heaven."
- Unsourced - This cries out for a source; it's a direct quote!
- Not findable via a google search on the quote...

After it became clear that the only two contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination were to be Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Beatty made it generally known that he was dissatisfied with the two choices and began to drop hints that he might be willing to seek the nomination himself.
"Bullworth" a film that Beatty made in 1998 about a U.S. senator who undergoes a radical transformation into a hip hop spouting ghetto populist
- See Wikipedia article Bullworth.
seems to have been made expressly for the purpose of presenting Beatty as a "man of the people".
- Unsourced - This may even be a biased statement. Cries out for citation.
After meeting with several powerful liberal activists and influential Democratic operatives,
including pollster Pat Caddell,
who had worked previously for Hart,
McGovern, and
President Jimmy Carter, and
adman Bill Hillsman,
who had worked on the campaigns of Senator Paul Wellstone and Governor Jesse Ventura,
Beatty announced in September of 1999 that he would not seek the nomination.
However, he continued to be courted by members of a different political party, the Reform Party,
who were looking for an alternative to Pat Buchanan,
a conservative who had switched parties after losing the Republican Party's presidential nomination for the third time in a row.
Despite frequent entreaties by Governor Ventura,
real-estate magnate Donald Trump, and
syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington,
Beatty refused to enter the race and
Buchanan eventually won the Reform Party's nomination.
Later in the campaign, Beatty announced that he was endorsing Ralph Nader for president.

Despite his decision not to seek the presidency in 2000, Beatty intimated that he might still run at a later time, telling reporters that he would do so if he thought he "could make an impact on the debate."
- Unsourced - Direct quote, needs a source.

As California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity with California voters dropped,
Beatty campaigned against the special election in November 2005.
He was the keynote speaker at the California Nurses Association's 2005 convention,
and recorded radio ads urging voters to reject Schwarzenegger's ballot proposals.
The propositions were defeated at the ballot box,
increasing speculation that Beatty may run against Schwarzenegger in the 2006 election.
Beatty has said that he is reluctant to enter the race because of the possibility of revealing his sexual liasons, but he has not ruled it out.

Trivia edit

Beatty studied acting at Northwestern University
- IMDB that he attended, not what he studied.
and joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity,
- IMDB.
but dropped-out prior to graduation.
- IMDB.

He is a good friend of Jack Nicholson and
Garry Shandling,
with whom he has worked on several films.

Beatty graduated from Washington and Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia.
- IMDB, E!Online, and http://www.casenet.com/people/warrenbeatty.htm

Beatty's height is 6'2".
- IMDB.

Turned down roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
- IMDB.
The Way We Were,
- IMDB. "Was the first choice to play the lead in The Way We Were (1973)."
The Great Gatsby and
- IMDB.
The Godfather.
- IMDB.

Has a lifelong addiction to ice cream.

Was interested to play the title role in Crimson Tide.

The part of Bill in the film Kill Bill was originally written for him.
- Yahoo! Movies bio "Beatty flirted with the idea of taking the role of the mysterious and deadly Bill in ... "Kill Bill" films, a part originally written for Beatty, but he ultimately passed on the role."

While attending Northwestern University, Warren Beatty once rode a motorcycle into his European History class. When he turned the engine off, the class and professor were still in a stunned silence. Before anyone could say a word, Beatty ripped out an electric guitar and performed what was reported to be a very rousing rendition of "Good Golly Ms. Molly." He then got back on the motorcyle, rode out of class, and never returned to the university again!
This particular stunt is one of several urban legends that have been attributed to several actors in Mr. Beatty's generation at various universities.

One of his first jobs was as a "rat catcher" in a Virginia movie theater.
- E!Online.

Dick Tracy is the highest grossing film of Beatty's career.

Has starred in [Ishtar and Town & Country]
two of the biggest flops of all time, Ishtar and Town & Country.
- Yahoo! Movies bio "savaged by the press and industry insiders as one of the worst films ever made, "Ishtar"" and ""Town & Country" (2001), ... --the film made many critics' worst of the year lists."

Filmography edit

References edit

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000886/bio
allmovie.com: http://www.allmovie.com/ (search for "warren beatty"); resulting URL does not seem to be bookmarkable.
Academy's database: http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp (search for "beatty"); resulting URL does not seem to be bookmarkable.
E!Online: http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,1367,00.html
Yahoo! Movies bio: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020836/bio
AP story on Tracy suit: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=763937
Amburn bio: Ellis Amburn, The Sexiest Man Alive : A Biography of Warren Beatty, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, 2002. ISBN 0-06-018566-X
Finstad bio: Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty : A Private Man, Random House, Inc., New York, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-4606-8

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