Hollywood Star Who Won’t Grow Old

Warren Beatty and his sister, Shirley MacLaine , grew up in Richmond, Virginia.

Warren Beatty turns 70 today, although you wouldn’t guess it from his well-preserved features – and the fact that he is still as famous for his philandering as his film-making, writes David Usborne in The Independent.

“His extraordinary accomplishments were the reason that just this January Beatty was honoured with the lifetime achievement Cecil B DeMille award at the annual Golden Globes show. After receiving it from presenter Tom Hanks, he made his own self- deprecating jokes about his advancing years. ‘Forget about Hanks,” he told the audience, ‘I’ve got bottles of moisturiser older than Tom Hanks.’

“Beatty, who in his very young years found himself overshadowed by his older sister Shirley MacLaine, first broke through under the direction of Elia Kazan in Splendor in the Grass, a film that in fact first brought him to the attention of the Golden Globes judges who declared him most promising newcomer. The year was 1962.

“Beatty has often credited Kazan with launching his career. When he received a controversial lifetime award at the Oscars in 1999, Beatty publicly defended Kazan against those who continued to spurn him for co-operating with a congressional committee exposing alleged communist sympathisers in the dark days of the McCarthy hearings…”

For Beatty’s profile and his films please click here…