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79-987: Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career has spanned over six decades, and he has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards . He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008. Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards , including four for Best Actor , four for Best Picture , two for Best Director , three for Original Screenplay , and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty
158-489: A Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in A Loss of Roses (1960). Henry Warren Beaty was born on March 30, 1937, in Richmond, Virginia . His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a teacher from Nova Scotia . His father, Ira Owens Beaty, studied for a PhD in educational psychology and was a teacher and school administrator, in addition to working in real estate. His grandparents were also teachers. The family
237-481: A sanatorium where he was recovering from tuberculosis , he decided to devote himself full-time to writing plays (the events immediately prior to going to the sanatorium are dramatized in his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night ). O'Neill had previously been employed by the New London Telegraph , writing poetry as well as reporting. In the fall of 1914, he entered Harvard University to attend
316-431: A "superb imitation of Berle and his routine", said a friend, and often used Berle-type humor at home. His sister's memories of her brother include seeing him reading books by Eugene O'Neill or singing along to Al Jolson records. In Rules Don't Apply (2016), Beatty plays Howard Hughes , who is shown talking about and singing Jolson songs while flying his plane. MacLaine noted — on what made her brother want to become
395-941: A Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival ; in 2001, he received the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Sebastián International Film Festival ; in 2002, he received the British Academy Fellowship from BAFTA; and in 2011, he was awarded the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award . Academy Award Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
474-544: A certain degree of wealth and power have been achieved, the ordinary rules of human behavior can be flouted?... Fools and idiots abound, but demonic, systemic evil does not. Mr. Beatty obviously loves Hollywood, which has been good to him. — Stephen Holden , The New York Times In 2010, Beatty directed and reprised his role as Dick Tracy in the 30-minute television special Dick Tracy Special , which premiered on TCM . The metafictional special features an interview with Tracy and film critic and historian Leonard Maltin ,
553-482: A course in dramatic technique given by George Piece Baker , but left after one year. During the 1910s O'Neill was a regular on the Greenwich Village literary scene, where he also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party of America founder John Reed . O'Neill also had a brief romantic relationship with Reed's wife, writer Louise Bryant . O'Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in
632-500: A fact, for then some day I would meet Strindberg". When Winther objected that "that would scarcely be enough to justify immortality", O'Neill answered quickly and firmly: "It would be enough for me". After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now-renowned play The Iceman Cometh was produced in 1946. The following year's A Moon for the Misbegotten failed, and it was decades before coming to be considered as among his best works. He
711-481: A film, it's a marvelous view of America in the 1912–19 era, and Beatty brought some superior performances from a large cast. —Joe Pollack, syndicated columnist Beatty's next film was Reds (1981), a historical epic about American Communist journalist John Reed who observed the Russian October Revolution – a project Beatty had begun researching and filming for as far back as 1970. It
790-441: A filmmaker, sometimes writing, producing, directing and starring in his films: "That's why he's more comfortable behind the camera ... He's in the total-control aspect. He has to have control over everything." Beatty doesn't deny that need; in speaking about his earliest parts, he said "When I acted in films I used to come with suggestions about the script, the lighting, the wardrobe, and people used to say 'Waddya want, to produce
869-753: A political cause on a scale previously unseen, creating a new power dynamic. Beatty appeared in the films The Parallax View (1974), directed by Alan Pakula ; and The Fortune (1975), directed by Mike Nichols . Taking greater control, Beatty produced, co-wrote and acted in Shampoo (1975), directed by Hal Ashby , which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay , as well as five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor. In 1978, Beatty directed, produced, wrote and acted in Heaven Can Wait (1978) (sharing co-directing credit with Buck Henry ). The film
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#1732780771341948-496: A production company, Tatira, which he named for Kathlyn (whose nickname was "Tat") and Ira. At age 29, Beatty produced and acted in Bonnie and Clyde , released in 1967. He assembled a team that included the writers Robert Benton and David Newman , and the director, Arthur Penn . Beatty selected most of the cast, including Faye Dunaway , Gene Hackman , Estelle Parsons , Gene Wilder and Michael J. Pollard . Beatty also oversaw
1027-686: A rare form of brain deterioration unrelated to either alcohol use or Parkinson's disease. In Warren Beatty 's 1981 film Reds , O'Neill is portrayed by Jack Nicholson , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. George C. White founded the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut in 1964. Eugene O'Neill is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame . O'Neill
1106-617: A series of benefit concerts to help with publicity and fundraising in the George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign . Beatty first put together Four for McGovern at The Forum in the Los Angeles area, convincing Barbra Streisand , Carole King and James Taylor to perform. Streisand brought Quincy Jones and his Orchestra, and recorded the album Live Concert at the Forum . Two weeks later, Beatty mounted another concert at
1185-558: A successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, 1918. They lived in a home owned by her parents in Point Pleasant, New Jersey , after their marriage. The years of their marriage—during which the couple lived in Connecticut and Bermuda and had two children, Shane and Oona —are described vividly in her 1958 memoir Part of a Long Story . They divorced on July 2, 1929, after O'Neill abandoned Boulton and
1264-552: A window", or according to a more concrete but possibly apocryphal account, because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson ", the future president of the United States. O'Neill spent several years at sea, during which he suffered from depression, alcoholism and despair. Despite this, he had a deep love for the sea and it became a prominent theme in many of his plays, several of which are set on board ships like those on which he worked. O'Neill joined
1343-962: A wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. O'Neill was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935. In 1936, O'Neill received the Nobel Prize in Literature after he had been nominated that year by Henrik Schück , member of the Swedish Academy . O'Neill was profoundly influenced by the work of Swedish writer August Strindberg , and upon receiving the Nobel Prize, dedicated much of his acceptance speech to describing Strindberg's influence on his work. In conversation with Russel Crouse , O'Neill said that "the Strindberg part of
1422-812: Is dead. Warren Beatty, a man of the cinema, is born. —Gerald Garrett, syndicated movie columnist Beatty followed his initial film with Tennessee Williams ' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), with Vivien Leigh and Lotte Lenya , directed by Jose Quintero ; All Fall Down (1962), with Angela Lansbury , Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint , directed by John Frankenheimer ; Lilith (1963), with Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda , directed by Robert Rossen ; Promise Her Anything (1964), with Leslie Caron , Bob Cummings and Keenan Wynn , directed by Arthur Hiller ; Mickey One (1965), with Alexandra Stewart and Hurd Hatfield , directed by Arthur Penn ; and Kaleidoscope (1966), with Susannah York and Clive Revill , directed by Jack Smight . In 1965, he formed
1501-495: Is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams 's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman . He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature . O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama . O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on
1580-708: Is referenced by Upton Sinclair in The Cup of Fury (1956), Dianne Wiest's character in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), by J.K. Simmons ' character in Whiplash (2014), by Tony Stark in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), specifically Long Day's Journey into Night , and Long Day's Journey into Night is also referenced by Patrick Wilson's character in Purple Violets (2007). O'Neill
1659-656: Is referred to in Moss Hart 's 1959 book Act One , later a Broadway play. O'Neill's home in New London, Monte Cristo Cottage , was made a National Historic Landmark in 1971. His home in Danville, California, near San Francisco, was preserved as the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in 1976. Connecticut College maintains the Louis Sheaffer Collection, consisting of material collected by
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#17327807713411738-715: Is the only person to have been nominated for acting, directing, writing, and producing in the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as codirector) and again for Reds . Beatty made his acting debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961) followed by Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and Shampoo (1975). He also directed and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (film) (1981) , Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998), and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. Beatty received
1817-496: The Cleveland Arena , in which Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon joined James Taylor. In June 1972, Beatty produced Together for McGovern at Madison Square Garden , reuniting Simon and Garfunkel , Nichols and May , and Peter, Paul and Mary , and featuring Dionne Warwick . With these productions, campaign manager Gary Hart said that Beatty had "invented the political concert". He had mobilized Hollywood celebrities for
1896-517: The Golden Globe Award for Best Director . Following Reds , Beatty did not appear in a film for five years until 1987's Ishtar , written and directed by Elaine May . Following severe criticism in press reviews by the new British studio chief David Puttnam just prior to its release, the film received mixed reviews and was unimpressive commercially. Puttnam attacked several other over-budget U.S. films greenlighted by his predecessor and
1975-663: The Sigma Chi fraternity. Beatty left college after his first year and moved to New York City to study acting under Stella Adler at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting . He often subsisted on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and worked odd jobs, including dishwasher, piano player, bricklayer's assistant, construction worker, and, relatively briefly, a sandhog . Beatty started his career making appearances on television shows such as Studio One (1957), Kraft Television Theatre (1957), and Playhouse 90 (1959). He
2054-621: The 1981 film Reds , about the life of John Reed; Louise Bryant was portrayed by Diane Keaton . His involvement with the Provincetown Players began in mid-1916. Terry Carlin reported that O'Neill arrived for the summer in Provincetown with "a trunk full of plays", but this was an exaggeration. Susan Glaspell describes a reading of Bound East for Cardiff that took place in the living room of Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook 's home on Commercial Street, adjacent to
2133-742: The Board of Trustees at the Scripps Research Institute , and the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation . He was named Honorary Chairman of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 2004. Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing, and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." The National Association of Theatre Owners awarded him with
2212-1159: The Distinguished Director Award from the Costume Designers Guild, the Life Achievement Award from the Publicists Guild, and the Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild. In 2004, he received the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., and the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild of America . He was honored with the American Film Institute 's Life Achievement Award in 2008. In March 2013, he
2291-719: The Horizon , opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama . His first major hit was The Emperor Jones , which ran on Broadway in 1920 and obliquely commented on the U.S. occupation of Haiti that was a topic of debate in that year's presidential election. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness! ,
2370-628: The Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which was fighting for improved living conditions for the working class using quick 'on the job' direct action. O'Neill's parents and elder brother Jamie (who drank himself to death at the age of 45) died within three years of one another, not long after he had begun to make his mark in the theater. After his experience in 1912–13 at
2449-668: The O'Neill biographer. The principal collection of O'Neill papers is at Yale University . The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut , fosters the development of new plays under his name. There is also a theatre in New York City named after him located at 230 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The Eugene O'Neill Theatre has housed musicals and plays such as Yentl , Annie , Grease , M. Butterfly , Spring Awakening , and The Book of Mormon . The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on
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2528-929: The Spirit of Hollywood Award from the Associates for Breast and Prostate Cancer Studies. Beatty was a founding board member of the Center for National Policy , a founding member of the Progressive Majority , a member of the Council on Foreign Relations , has served as the Campaign Chair for the Permanent Charities Committee, and has participated in the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland . He served on
2607-1021: The Star of the Year Award in 1975, and in 1978 the Director of the Year Award and the Producer of the Year Award. He received the Alan J. Pakula Memorial Award from the National Board of Review in 1998. He received the Akira Kurosawa Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from the San Francisco International Film Festival . He has received the Board of Governors Award from the American Society of Cinematographers ,
2686-559: The age of 40. Shane O'Neill became a heroin addict and moved into the family home in Bermuda, Spithead, with his new wife, where he supported himself by selling off the furnishings. He was disowned by his father before also committing suicide (by jumping out of a window) a number of years later. Oona ultimately inherited Spithead and the connected estate (subsequently known as the Chaplin Estate). In 1950 O'Neill joined The Lambs ,
2765-611: The children, for the actress Carlotta Monterey (born San Francisco, California, December 28, 1888; died Westwood, New Jersey , November 18, 1970). O'Neill and Carlotta married less than a month after he officially divorced his previous wife. In 1929, O'Neill and Monterey moved to the Loire Valley in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher , Indre-et-Loire. During
2844-582: The confidence born of age and success, while Beatty was virtually aflame with the arrogance of youth." Kazan recalls his impressions of Beatty: Warren—it was obvious the first time I saw him—wanted it all and wanted it his way. Why not? He had the energy, a very keen intelligence, and more chutzpah than any Jew I've ever known. Even more than me. Bright as they come, intrepid, and with that thing all women secretly respect: complete confidence in his sexual powers, confidence so great that he never had to advertise himself, even by hints. Mr. Beatty's career has had all
2923-437: The darker themes that he later thrived on. Here he focused on the brothel world and the lives of prostitutes, which also play a role in some fourteen of his later plays. In particular, he memorably included the birth of an infant into the world of prostitution. At the time, such themes constituted a huge innovation, as these sides of life had never before been presented with such success. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond
3002-529: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 220216868 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:59:31 GMT Eugene O%27Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism , earlier associated with Chekhov , Ibsen , and Strindberg . The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night
3081-550: The disappearance of a group of manuscripts that O'Neill had brought with him from San Francisco. "When the table was cleared I learned the cause of the tension; the manuscripts were lost. They had disappeared mysteriously during the day and there was no clue to their whereabouts." O'Neill died at the Sheraton Hotel (now Boston University 's Kilachand Hall ) on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at age 65. As he
3160-497: The early 1930s they returned to the United States and lived in Sea Island, Georgia , at a house called Casa Genotta. He moved to Danville, California , in 1937 and lived there until 1944. His house there, Tao House , is today the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site . In their first years together, Monterey organized O'Neill's life, enabling him to devote himself to writing. She later became addicted to potassium bromide , and
3239-690: The eleven plays O'Neill proposed, A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions , were completed. As his health worsened, O'Neill lost inspiration for the project and wrote three largely autobiographical plays, The Iceman Cometh , Long Day's Journey into Night , and A Moon for the Misbegotten , which he completed in 1943, just before leaving Tao House and losing his ability to write. The book " Love and Admiration and Respect": The O'Neill-Commins Correspondence " includes an extended account written by Saxe Commins, O'Neill's publisher, in which he talks of "snatches of dialogue" between Carlotta and O'Neill over
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3318-506: The famed theater club. After suffering from multiple health problems (including depression and alcoholism) over many years, O'Neill ultimately faced a severe Parkinson's -like tremor in his hands that made it impossible for him to write during the last 10 years of his life; he tried dictation but found himself unable to compose that way. While at Tao House, O'Neill had intended to write a collection of works he called "the Cycle" chronicling American life spanning from 1755 to 1932. Only two of
3397-408: The first in a string of major directors Beatty sought out, mentors or father figures from whom he wanted to learn." Beatty, years later during a Kennedy Center tribute to Kazan, told the audience that Kazan "had given him the most important break in his career." Biskind adds that they "were wildly dissimilar—mentor vs. protegé, director vs. actor, immigrant outsider vs. native son. Kazan was armed with
3476-493: The following year due to a physical disability . He remained on inactive duty after that time. Beatty made his film debut in Elia Kazan 's Splendor in the Grass (1961), opposite Natalie Wood . The film was a major critical and box office success and 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. Author Peter Biskind points out that Kazan "was
3555-453: The fringes of society. They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, ultimately sliding into disillusion and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known ( Ah, Wilderness! ). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888, in a hotel, the Barrett House, on what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square ) in New York City. A commemorative plaque
3634-430: The hallmarks of the conventional Hollywood golden boy. Ingratiating good looks, disarming youthfulness, a delight in the social life and no apparently strong feelings about his craft. This image has now been strikingly shattered with his emergence as a vividly individual actor and as a highly imaginative producer in the gangster ballad, Bonnie and Clyde ... At 28 [ sic ], the image of Warren Beatty, fun-loving playboy,
3713-441: The latter of whom discusses the history and creation of Tracy. Tracy talks about how he admired Ralph Byrd and Morgan Conway who portrayed him in several films, but says he didn't care much for Beatty's portrayal of him or his film . The production of the special allowed Beatty to retain the rights to the character. At CinemaCon In April 2016, Beatty reiterated that he intends to make a Dick Tracy sequel. In 2023, Beatty reprised
3792-429: The marriage deteriorated, resulting in a number of separations, although they never divorced. In 1943, O'Neill disowned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again. He also had distant relationships with his sons. Eugene O'Neill Jr. , a Yale classicist, suffered from alcoholism and committed suicide in 1950 at
3871-451: The need for campaign finance reform. He was one of the pallbearers chosen by McCain himself at the senator's funeral in 2018. Film Television Beatty has received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Americans for Democratic Action , the Brennan Legacy Award from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, the Phillip Burton Public Service Award from the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights , and
3950-529: The picture as well?' And I used to say that I supposed I did." Beatty played football at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington. Encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who established herself as a Hollywood star, he decided to work as a stagehand at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. during the summer before his senior year. After graduation, he was reportedly offered ten college football scholarships, but turned them down to study liberal arts at Northwestern University (1954–55), where he joined
4029-447: The poor box office performance of Town & Country (2001), in which Beatty starred, he did not appear in or direct another film for 15 years. In May 2005, Beatty sued Tribune Media , claiming he still maintained the rights to Dick Tracy . On March 25, 2011, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson ruled in Beatty's favor. Who else is better equipped to understand the symbiosis between show business and politics and to assert that when
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#17327807713414108-517: The previous year's flub. Without incident, Beatty announced The Shape of Water as the winner. Beatty has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992. They have four children, including actress Ella Beatty . Prior to marrying Bening, Beatty was notorious for his large number of romantic relationships that received generous media coverage, having been linked to over 100 female celebrities. Cher stated that "Warren has probably been with everybody I know." Leslie Caron dated him but thought he
4187-548: The real-life gangster Bugsy Siegel in the critically acclaimed and commercially successful film Bugsy , directed by Barry Levinson , which was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor; it later won two of the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design . The film also received eight Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor, winning for Best Motion Picture. Beatty's next film, Love Affair (1994), directed by Glenn Gordon Caron , received mixed reviews and
4266-406: The role of Tracy and played the character opposite himself in Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In , a follow-up to the Dick Tracy Special that also aired on TCM. The 30-minute special, which mostly consists of a Zoom interview with Ben Mankiewicz and a returning Maltin in which Tracy criticizes aspects of the 1990 film adaptation to Beatty's face and suggests that a younger actor should take over
4345-431: The role of Tracy, concludes with Beatty and Tracy meeting in person and suggesting that Dick Tracy will return in future. In the mid-1970s, Beatty signed a contract with Warner Bros. to star in, produce, write, and possibly direct a film about Howard Hughes . The project was put on hold when Beatty began Heaven Can Wait . Initially, Beatty planned to film the life story of John Reed and Hughes back-to-back, but as he
4424-524: The script and spearheaded the delivery of the film. Beatty chose Gene Hackman because he had acted with him in Lilith in 1964 and felt he was a "great" actor. Upon completion of the film, he credited Hackman with giving the "most authentic performance in the movie, so textured and so moving", recalls Dunaway. Beatty had been so impressed by Gene Wilder after seeing him in a play, that he cast him without an audition for what became Wilder's screen debut. And Beatty had already known Pollard: "Michael J. Pollard
4503-426: The speech is no 'telling tale' to please the Swedes with a polite gesture. It is absolutely sincere. [...] And it's absolutely true that I am proud of the opportunity to acknowledge my debt to Strindberg thus publicly to his people". Before the speech was sent to Stockholm , O'Neill read it to his friend Sophus Keith Winther . As he was reading, he suddenly interrupted himself with the comment: "I wish immortality were
4582-428: The stage to present the Best Picture Award . They had been given the wrong envelope, leading Dunaway to incorrectly announce La La Land as Best Picture, instead of the actual winner, Moonlight . This became a social media sensation, trending all over the world. In 2018, Beatty and Dunaway returned to present Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards , earning a standing ovation upon their entrance, making jokes about
4661-402: The title Rules Don't Apply , a fictionalized true-life romantic comedy set in 1958 Hollywood and Las Vegas. Beatty wrote, co-produced, directed and starred alongside Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins , with supporting cast including Baldwin, Annette Bening , Matthew Broderick , Candice Bergen , Ed Harris and Martin Sheen . Some have said that Beatty's film was 40 years in the making. It
4740-621: The wharf (pictured) that was used by the Players for their theater: "So Gene took Bound East for Cardiff out of his trunk, and Freddie Burt read it to us, Gene staying out in the dining-room while reading went on. He was not left alone in the dining-room when the reading had finished." The Provincetown Players performed many of O'Neill's early works in their theaters both in Provincetown and on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village . Some of these early plays, such as The Emperor Jones , began downtown and then moved to Broadway. In an early one-act play, The Web , written in 1913, O'Neill first explored
4819-446: Was Love Affair (1939), starring one of his favorite actors, Charles Boyer . He found it "deeply moving", and recalled that "[t]his is a movie I always wanted to make." He remade Love Affair in 1994, starring alongside his wife Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn. Among his favorite TV shows in the 1950s was the Texaco Star Theatre , and he began to mimic one of its regular host comedians, Milton Berle . Beatty learned to do
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#17327807713414898-423: Was Baptist . During Warren's childhood, Ira Beaty moved his family from Richmond to Norfolk and then to Arlington and Waverly , then back to Arlington, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in 1945. During the 1950s the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. Beatty's older sister is actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine . His uncle by marriage
4977-482: Was Canadian politician A.A. MacLeod . Beatty became interested in movies as a child, often accompanying his sister 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
5056-529: Was a commercial failure. In 1998, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in the political satire Bulworth , which was critically acclaimed and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . The film also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, for Best Motion Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Beatty has appeared briefly in numerous documentaries, including Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) and One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005). Following
5135-587: Was a critical and commercial success, despite being an American film about an American Communist, made and released at the height of the Cold War. It received 12 Academy Award nominations – including four for Beatty (for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Original Screenplay), winning three. Beatty won for Best Director, Maureen Stapleton won for Best Supporting Actress (playing anarchist Emma Goldman ), and Vittorio Storaro won for Best Cinematography. The film received seven Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay. Beatty won
5214-402: Was a semi-regular on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis during its first season (1959–60). His performance in William Inge 's A Loss of Roses on Broadway garnered him a 1960 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play and a 1960 Theatre World Award . It was his sole appearance on Broadway. Beatty enlisted in the California Air National Guard in February 1960 but was discharged
5293-402: Was also part of the modern movement to partially revive the classical heroic mask from ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh theatre in some of his plays, such as The Great God Brown and Lazarus Laughed . O'Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909, to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910–1950). In 1917, O'Neill met Agnes Boulton ,
5372-407: Was dying, he whispered: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room." He is interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston 's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. In 1956, Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death. It
5451-570: Was fired shortly thereafter. Under his second production company, Mulholland Productions, Beatty produced, directed and played the title role of comic strip -based detective Dick Tracy in the 1990 film of the same name . The film received positive reviews and was one of the highest-grossing films of the year. It received seven Academy Award nominations, winning three for Best Art Direction , Best Makeup , and Best Original Song . It also received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture. In 1991, he produced and starred as
5530-399: Was first dedicated there in 1957. The site is now occupied by 1500 Broadway , which houses offices, shops and the ABC Studios . He was the son of Irish immigrant actor James O'Neill and Mary Ellen Quinlan , who was also of Irish descent. His father suffered from alcoholism; his mother from an addiction to morphine, prescribed to relieve the pains of the difficult birth of Eugene, who
5609-575: Was getting deeper into the project, he eventually focused primarily on the Reed film Reds . In June 2011, it was reported that Beatty would produce, write, direct and star in a film about Hughes, focusing on an affair he had with a younger woman in the final years of his life. During this period, Beatty interviewed actors to star in his ensemble cast. He met with Andrew Garfield , Alec Baldwin , Owen Wilson , Justin Timberlake , Shia LaBeouf , Jack Nicholson , Evan Rachel Wood , Rooney Mara , and Felicity Jones . The film would eventually be released under
5688-1123: Was her third son. Because his father was often on tour with a theatrical company, accompanied by Eugene's mother, in 1895 O'Neill was sent to St. Aloysius Academy for Boys , a Catholic boarding school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. In 1900, he became a day student at the De La Salle Institute on 59th Street in Manhattan. The O'Neill family reunited for summers at the Monte Cristo Cottage in New London, Connecticut . He also briefly attended Betts Academy in Stamford. He attended Princeton University for one year. Accounts vary as to why he left. He may have been dropped for attending too few classes, been suspended for "conduct code violations", or "for breaking
5767-888: Was inducted into the California Hall of Fame . In 2016, he was honored by the Museum of the Moving Image and received the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Beatty has received a number of international awards: in 1992, he was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France); in 1998, he was nominated for a Golden Lion for Best Film ( Bulworth ), and received
5846-410: Was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. It also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor. A film [ Reds ] of this scope and size demands incredible work from the director, and when you consider that Beatty also served as producer, writer and star, it's hard to believe so much work could come from one man. As
5925-675: Was nominated for ten Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Actor , and seven Golden Globe Awards , including Best Picture and Best Actor. Beatty was originally entitled to 40% of the film's profits but gave 10% to Penn and his 30% share earned him more than US$ 6 million. After Bonnie and Clyde , Beatty acted with Elizabeth Taylor in The Only Game in Town (1970), directed by George Stevens; McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), directed by Robert Altman ; and Dollars (1971), directed by Richard Brooks. In 1972, Beatty produced
6004-481: Was one of my oldest friends", Beatty said. "I'd known him forever; I met him the day I got my first television show. We did a play together on Broadway." Bonnie and Clyde became a critical and commercial success, despite the early misgivings by studio head Jack Warner , who put up the production money. Before filming began, Warner said, "What does Warren Beatty think he's doing? How did he ever get us into this thing? This gangster stuff went out with Cagney ." The film
6083-640: Was produced on stage to tremendous critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. It is widely considered his finest play. Other posthumously published works include A Touch of the Poet (1958) and More Stately Mansions (1967). In 1967, the United States Postal Service honored O'Neill with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) $ 1 postage stamp. In 2000, a team of researchers studying O'Neill's autopsy report concluded that he died of cerebellar cortical atrophy ,
6162-408: Was released on November 23, 2016, and was Beatty's first film in 15 years. Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics" gave the film a 55% "Rotten" rating. The film was also a commercial disappointment. In 2017, Beatty reunited with his Bonnie and Clyde co-star Faye Dunaway at the 89th Academy Awards , in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary. After being introduced by Jimmy Kimmel , they walked out onto
6241-481: Was too self-centered, and she refused his marriage proposals. Beatty is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party . In 1972, Beatty was part of the "inner circle" of Senator George McGovern 's presidential campaign . He traveled extensively and was instrumental in organizing fundraising. Despite differences in politics, Beatty was also a friend of Republican Senator John McCain , with whom he agreed on
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