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
Guy Beatty to major general, and restored to full pay in August 1927. He then began a four-year tour as the Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian State Forces. At the end of which he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, just before retiring from the army on 20 June 1931. His final military appointment was as the Regimental Colonel for the 4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse. Beatty married Mabel Reynolds in 1905 and they had a son and daughter, both of whom died on active service. Sir Guy Archibald Hastings Beatty died at his home