![]() Not only did Beatty refuse to play Kennedy, he told Pierre Salinger to drop the project because the script "sucked." Warner was not Kennedy and PT-109 by John Tregaskis into a movie, wanted Fred Zinnemann to direct it, and Beatty to star in it. Kennedy wanted the studio to turn John F. ![]() He thought he was too good for the pictures he was offered, and he even turned down the President of the United States. Bill Orr, Warner's son-in-law, was right. So far as Warner was concerned, he was just another pretty face, on his way to blowing a promising career on a bunch of artsy-fartsy "films."Įven Ella Kazan's Splendor in the Grass, his first picture, the one that put him on the map, never made any real money. Not a day passed that Beatty didn't want something. The story goes, Beatty was trying to get Warner to finance Bonnie and Clyde, a movie Warner had no use for. Warren Beatty may well have been the first man to kiss Jack Warner's feet, certainly the last. How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-'N'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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