Trivia of Warren Beatty

Trivia of Warren Beatty (30 March 1937)

*Beatty became interested in movies as a child, often accompanying his sister Shirley McLaine to theaters. One film that had an important early influence on him was The Philadelphia Story (1940), which he saw when it was re-released in the 1950s. He noticed a strong resemblance between its star, Katharine Hepburn, and his mother, in both appearance and personality, saying that they symbolized "perpetual integrity".Another film that influenced him was Love Affair (1939), starring one of his favorite actors, Charles Boyer. He found it "deeply moving", he remade Love Affair in 1994, starring alongside his wife Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn.

*He started his career making appearances on television shows before made film debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass (1961), opposite Natalie Wood.This movie was huge success brought Beatty was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and received the award for New Star of the Year – Actor.The film was also nominated for two Oscars, winning one.On the set ,the crew of movie dislike Beatty.They found newcomer Beatty was arrogant and didn't like him. In fact, he was given the nickname "Mental Anguish" or "M.A."for short that crew members called him behind his back.

*John F. Kennedy wanted Beatty to play him in PT 109 (1963), after learning that director Elia Kazan had said that if anybody were to play JFK, it should be Beatty since they had so much in common. As Kazan stated, "Warren had everything Jack had: looks, intelligence, cunning and a commanding eye with the girls. Warren also suffered from lower back trouble." Kennedy himself suggested Beatty to Warner Bros to play him. Jack L. Warner asked Beatty to fly over to Washington to meet JFK and talk about the movie with him, but Beatty did not want to make the trip, nor play the part. He found the script too weak and that there was a surprising lack of action. His assessment turned out to be right: Cliff Robertson played the part and the movie flopped. Months later, JFK and Beatty met and Kennedy had to concede that Beatty's decision not to make the movie had been right. Beatty and Kennedy remained very good friends up until Kennedy's death in 1963.

*He turned down leading role of What's New Pussycat (1965), that was written for him because Leslie Caron--his girlfriend at the time--was turned down by producers for the female lead.Peter O'Toole replaced him.

*In 1967 , he started made his producing debut (and also stars) in the film "Bonnie and Clyde." When Warren Beatty was on-board as producer only, his sister Shirley MacLaine was a strong possibility to play Bonnie. But when Beatty decided to play Clyde himself, for obvious reasons he decided not to use MacLaine.The film later receives critical recognition and is now considered a movie classic.

*In the films he produces, he usually plays characters who lose something important by the end of the film.

*Along with Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen, Kenneth Branagh, Clint Eastwood and Roberto Benigni, he is one of only seven men to receive Academy Award nominations for both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film: Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), Olivier for Hamlet (1948), Allen for Annie Hall (1977), Beatty for both Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981), Branagh for Henry V (1989), Eastwood for Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Benigni for La vita è bella (1997).