DATE: 1970s ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot SUBJECT: Warren Beatty APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3-1/2"x4-7/8" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large number of candid, red carpet and live performance celebrity photos, slides and negatives shot by long-time celebrity photographer Nancy Barr-Brandon that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Henry Warren Beaty was born in 937 in Richmond, VA. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his father, Ira Owens Beaty, a PhD. of educational psychology, public school administrator, and real estate dealer, was from Virginia. His ancestry includes English and Scottish. His mother gave up her profession to settle down in Virginia and raise a family, although it was never in doubt that Beatty and his sister, the actress and dancer Shirley MacLaine, would themselves be raised to pursue stardom - each was urged to be successful and achieve from a very early age. Beatty attended high school in Arlington, Virginia and then Northwestern University, but, not to be outdone by his rising-star big sister, dropped out after his first year to study acting under the legendary Stella Adler. He found his first screen role, in the TV sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (959), to be "ridiculous" and quickly abandoned it to work on the Broadway stage, the highlight of which was his Tony-nominated performance in "A Loss of Roses". Beatty's first major film role came in the drama Splendor in the Grass (96), as the confused Bud. Critics refused to take the handsome young Beatty seriously, and he strove to turn this around with his arty crime drama Mickey One (965), directed by Arthur Penn, which got favorable notices but did not find an audience. Next he starred in a light-weight comedy, Promise Her Anything (965), along with the lovely Leslie Caron and the charismatic Beatty, already a Lothario, began an affair with his married co-star which was cited in Caron's divorce proceedings. Beatty teamed up again with Penn for the movie that would elevate his status in Hollywood, the classic Bonnie and Clyde (967), in which he and co-star Faye Dunaway played the quirky outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The movie's powerful performances, strong direction and controversially graphic violence made it a huge hit, and Beatty finally found himself taken seriously. Over the next decade, Beatty starred in, produced and occasionally directed some of the most important films in Hollywood, some critically praised, such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (97); others prescient social commentaries, such as Shampoo (975) which itself became an important event in popular culture; others were wonderful updates of Hollywood classics, such as Heaven Can Wait (978). He capped this all off with his hugely ambitious recounting of the American radical journalist John Reed's experiences in Bolshevik Russia, Reds (98), for which Beatty, already nominated for acting Oscars several times, finally won as best director. Beatty was an intrinsic part of the renaissance of Hollywood in the 970s, when films were being made every year that were important as well as successful. Beatty's remarkable career stalled in the 980s. In fact, he was absent from the screen for most of that decade, and when his next film after Reds (98) finally came, it was the legendarily disastrous Ishtar (987), one of the biggest film catastrophes of not only the decade, but all time. Beatty's next movie, Dick Tracy (990) was a summer blockbuster and received rave reviews from the critics as well. Following this came Bugsy (99), a biopic of the life of gangster and Las Vegas visionary Bugsy Siegel, which was another box office failure. Beatty married his co-star, Annette Bening, and produced and starred with her in another costly disaster, Love Affair (994). Beatty revisited his "Ishtar" nadir with his expensive 200 comedy Town & Country (200), which was both a box office and critical debacle. Fortunately, in the midst of all this bad news Beatty's creative best resurfaced in 998 with his Bulworth (998), an arch political satire about a liberal California senator forced to resort to the right-wing politics of the day to retain his seat. Disillusioned, Bullworth puts out a contract on his own life and while waiting to die decides to graphically show the ugliness that has become politics to the public, but his fatal plan is complicated when he falls for a beautiful young woman from South Central LA (Halle Berry). Bulworth (998) was a reminder that Beatty was still capable of making movies that are remarkable, entertaining and successful. In his prime Beatty was almost as famous for his love life as he was for his movie-making, having been connected with a galaxy of beautiful starlets, a "who's who" list reported to include Madonna, Cher, Natalie Wood, Lana Wood, Diane Keaton, Julie Christie, Leslie Caron, Goldie Hawn, Isabelle Adjani, Liv Ullmann, Carly Simon, Inger Stevens, Janice Dickinson, Joan Collins, Michelle Phillips, Kate Jackson, Britt Ekland, Jean Seberg, Mamie Van Doren, Carol Alt, Brigitte Bardot, Justine Bateman, and Elle Macpherson. Notorious for his alleged "love 'em and leave 'em" treatment of many of these women, an aging Beatty had the tables turned on him by the sultry diva, supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who unceremoniously dropped Beatty to pursue Axl Rose of rock band 'Guns N' Roses'. Soon after that, Beatty settled down with Bening, marrying on March 2, 992. The couple has four children. Beatty has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including winning the Best Director Award and its highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. He has been nominated for 6 Golden Globe Awards and won six, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he received in 2007. Only Beatty and Orson Welles have been nominated for producer, director, writer and actor in the same film. Welles did it once (for Citizen Kane), and Beatty did it twice (for Heaven Can Wait and Reds). SKU: NBP03752
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