The Biography of Warren Beatty

This is the in-depth biography of Warren Beatty, Hollywood legend, and the first person to receive Academy Award nominations twice as an actor, director, producer and writer for a single film. His movies include "Bonnie and Clyde", "Shampoo", "Reds", "Heaven Can Wait", and "Bugsy". A well-known womaniser, the notches on Beatty's bedpost read like a who's who of female stardom. His liaisons have included Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Linda Eastman (later McCartney), Maria Callas, Cher, Brigitte Bardot, Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda. Including a wealth of previously unreported information on early affairs with Joan Collins and Natalie Wood, to his relationship with Madonna, this book also unearths Beatty's intriguing family background - including his highly charged and competitive relationship with his older sister Shirley MacLaine - and how he left his reputation as an international Casanova behind to finally construct a solid marriage to Annette Bening.
Extraordinarily driven and motivated, Warren Beatty was one of the young film-makers who revolutionised Hollywood in the sixties and seventies, working alongside such greats as Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman and Al Pacino. Along with figures like Clint Eastwood, he became a Hollywood player in every aspect of the movie business - a new breed of star. Through interviews with his colleagues, the book aims to shed light on his films and his unique way of working. This book tells the story of how movie making changed in the sixties and seventies. Beatty was one of the first actors to take a greater role in movie production, ending up with a much higher stake in his movies' fates. Later he also blazed a trail in politics, becoming a key power broker within the Democratic Party and attracting controversy along the way.