Editing Warren Beatty (section)

==Early life and education==
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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 21, 1987 |title=Ira Beaty, 83, Father of Two Movie Stars |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1987/01/21/ira-beaty-83-father-of-two-movie-stars/ |access-date=June 20, 2024 |website=Sun Sentinel |language=en-US |url-status=live |archive-date=June 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620173050/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1987/01/21/ira-beaty-83-father-of-two-movie-stars/}}</ref> His grandparents were also teachers. The family was [[Baptist]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Warren Beatty profile |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Warren_Beatty.html |url-status=usurped |website=Adherents.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119131419/http://adherents.com/people/pb/Warren_Beatty.html |archive-date=November 19, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Actor Warren Beatty gives public-policy graduates – and Gov. Schwarzenegger – some advice on power |url=https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/21_beatty.shtml |website=berkeley.edu |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |date=May 21, 2005 |access-date=March 26, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301041903/https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/21_beatty.shtml}}</ref> During Warren's childhood, Ira Beaty moved his family from Richmond to [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]] and then to [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] and [[Waverly, Virginia|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 Historic District|Dominion Hills]] section of Arlington.<ref name=VAnom>{{cite web |last1=Trieschmann |first1=Laura |last2=Weishar |first2=Paul |last3=Stillner |first3=Anna |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dominion Hills Historic District |url=http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/CPHD/ons/hp/file84027.pdf |url-status=dead |website=arlingtonva.us |publisher=Arlington, VA Departments & Offices |date=May 2011 |access-date=February 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819063241/http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/CPHD/ons/hp/file84027.pdf |archive-date=August 19, 2012}}</ref> Beatty's older sister is actress, dancer and writer [[Shirley MacLaine]]. His uncle by marriage 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 (film)|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".<ref name="finstad"/> Another film that influenced him was ''[[Love Affair (1939 film)|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."<ref name="finstad"/> He [[Love Affair (1994 film)|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 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.<ref name="finstad"/> In ''[[Rules Don't Apply]]'' (2016), Beatty plays [[Howard Hughes]], who is shown talking about and singing Jolson songs while flying his plane.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://filmfreakcentral.net/2016/11/rules-dont-apply/ |title=Rules Don't Apply (review) |website=Film Freak Central |date=November 24, 2016 |last=Chaw|first=Walter|url-status=live|archive-date=January 7, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250107111811/https://filmfreakcentral.net/2016/11/rules-dont-apply/}}</ref>

MacLaine noted — on what made her brother want to become a filmmaker, sometimes writing, producing, directing and starring in his films: "That's why he's more comfortable behind the camera&nbsp;... He's in the total-control aspect. He has to have control over everything."<ref name="finstad"/> 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 the picture as well?' And I used to say that I supposed I did."<ref name=Garrett>{{cite news|last=Garrett|first=Gerald|title=(missing title)|work=[[The London Free Press|Free-Press London]] & [[Detroit Free Press]]|date=October 1, 1967|page=27}}</ref>

Beatty played [[American football|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 (Washington, D.C.)|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 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/23/features2|title=Warren Beatty: Rebel with a cause|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=January 23, 1999|last=Younge|first=Gary|url-status=live|archive-date=September 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923130745/https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/23/features2}}</ref>