Warren Beatty more comfortable behind the camera," she says. "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 the picture as well?' And I used to say that I supposed I did." Beatty was a star football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington. Encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who had recently established herself as
Ethel Beatty Ethel Beatty Ethel Beatty, Countess Beatty (née Field) (1873 - July 17, 1932) was a socialite and a member of the aristocracy. The daughter of American millionaire Marshall Field, she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. Marshall Field, the founder of the American firm Marshall Field's and his first wife, Nannie Douglas Scott, were Beatty's parents. She had one full brother, Marshall Field junior. Beatty married Arthur Tree, son of Lambert Tree, in an opulent ceremony held at the home of her parents, 1905 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, on 1 January 1891. They had one child, Ronald born on 26 September 1897. She