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) amount of noise as it approached the beaches at Scoglitti; the crew could hear it, but not see it. At almost the same time, "Beatty" suffered hits on her starboard side by what were believed to be machine gun bullets. "Beatty"s men suddenly noticed the plane pass across the ship's bow at about , "missing the forecastle by a few feet", and turned down the port side of the ship, landing in the water next to the number two stack, about away. "Beatty"s 20 mm guns fired two bursts before the plane came to a stop in the swells alongside.