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
Bessie Beatty Beatty died suddenly by heart attack in 1947, age 61. There was a tribute program aired the day after her death. Bessie Beatty Bessie Beatty (January 27, 1886 – April 6, 1947) was an American journalist, editor, playwright, and radio host. Elizabeth Mary "Bessie" Beatty was born and raised in Los Angeles, one of four children of Thomas and Jane Boxwell Beatty, both immigrants from Ireland. As a child in Long Beach, she staged a children's show to raise money for the Red Cross, casting her siblings in some of the roles. She attended Occidental College, but did not graduate.