Warren Beatty moved his family from Richmond to Norfolk and then to Arlington and 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 section of Arlington. Beatty's elder sister is the actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine. His uncle, by marriage, was Canadian politician A. A. MacLeod. Beatty became interested in movies before his teens, when he often accompanied his sister to theaters. One film that had an important early influence on him was "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), which he saw when it
USS Beatty (DD-640) formation at 1800 on 6 November 1943. At general quarters, "Beatty" observed machine gun fire on the port side of the convoy at 1803. Many small pips appeared on her radar screen in the direction of , stationed on that side of the convoy. A minute after observing the gunfire, "Beatty" noted a large bomb explode close aboard her colleague, a glider bomb which had missed its target. "Beatty"s radar picked up five incoming aircraft, two of which passed the port side of the convoy, inside the screen. At 1805, "Beatty"s radar picked up two more incoming planes that showed