Happy Birthday to Warren Beatty!

I don’t need much of an excuse to post a buncha pics of Warren Beatty, one of the most handsome men to ever grace the silver screen. But since today is the movie legend’s 89th birthday, I have a perfect excuse.

He’s not been in any movies since 2016’s Rules Don’t Apply which was his first film since Town & Country in 2001.

But during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, he was a very prolific actor-director-producer and writer.

Before he settled down with wife Annette Bening, his Bugsy and Love Affair co-star, in the early 90s and raising their four kids, Beatty scored a stunning series of noteworthy professional triumphs. They included winning the Academy Award for directing Reds and starring in (and often writing, producing and directing) such memorable films as Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Bugsy, Bulworth and Dick Tracy.

His first big film role came way back in 1961 when he starred opposite Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass. He also starred in All Fall Down, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Lilith, Kaleidoscope, Promise Her Anything, The Only Game in Town, The Parallax View, and The Fortune, among others.

While his film resume is impressive, his love life even more so. He was involved with Miss Wood for a time and also engaged to Joan Collins, had an affair with a married Leslie Caron, enjoyed a long relationship with Julie Christie, and was later seriously involved with Reds co-star Diane Keaton. He also dated Madonna shortly before falling in love with Bening who would become his first only wife.

If he seems comfortable around strong and successful women, it could be because his sister is the equally famous Shirley MacLaine.

Imagine that dinner table while growing up!