Beatty had a close relationship with his elder brother Charles, who became his ally against their oppressive and overbearing father.

Beatty went so far as to consult a fortune teller, Mrs. Roberts, who predicted a fine outcome to the match.

However, there were disadvantages, as Beatty discovered after his marriage, for his wife was an unstable neurotic who caused him extreme mental tortures.

This proved an excellent social opening for Beatty, who established a longstanding relationship with the Duke's eldest daughter, Marie, and with other members of the court.

The gunboats were in support at the Battle of Omdurman, where Beatty made the acquaintance of Winston Churchill who had become a cavalry officer in Beatty's father's old regiment, the 4th Hussars, and had there learnt his family history.

Beatty was strongly commended by Captain E. H. Bayley, who had been his commander during the siege, and by the commander in chief.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

Admiral John Jellicoe, described by Churchill as the only man who could " lose the war in an afternoon " by losing the strategic British superiority in dreadnought battleships, was not a dashing showman like David Beatty.

In 1927 Beatty, who had become the first chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, retired from active service.

Considerable argument broke out as a result, with significant numbers of servicemen disputing the published version, including Admiral Bacon, who wrote his own book about the battle, criticising the version sponsored by Beatty and highly critical of Beatty's own part in the Battle.

Beatty orders Montag to destroy his own house, telling him that his wife and neighbors were the ones who reported him.

Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy ( 1990 ) ( where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character ), Hero ( 1992 ) and Billy Bathgate ( 1991 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe ).

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

In addition, Warner was already annoyed at Beatty who refused to star in the film, PT 109 at his behest and was insolent enough to defy his favorite gesture of authority of showing the studio water tower with the WB logo on it by responding " Well, it's got your name, but it's got my initials.

Beatty stars in the lead role, playing a football player who, after being killed in a collision accident, is sent back to earth in the body of a millionaire.

Gangster Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel ( Warren Beatty ), who works for the New York mob, goes to California and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill ( Annette Bening ), a Hollywood starlet.

Some of the people who have stayed at the Tarpon Inn include: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who fished there in 1937 ; Duncan Hines, who spent his honeymoon there ; Hedy Lamarr ; Victor McLaglen ; Aimee Semple McPherson ; Clyde Beatty ; Bob Lilly ; and physicist Edward Teller.

The film marked the first of three collaborations between Christie and then-boyfriend Warren Beatty, who described her as " the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known.

After their brief liaison during 1970 – 1971 ended amicably, Stevens wrote his song " Sweet Scarlet " about Simon, who also had highly publicized relationships with Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson and James Taylor during this period.

She hinted that it could be a composite of several people, and for many people the most likely " suspects " have always been Beatty or Jagger, who sings backup vocals on this recording.

As a result of his efforts, he also gave actors such as Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Warren Beatty, Andy Griffith, James Dean, and Jack Palance, their first major movie roles.

She was saved from immediate sinking by the sighting of another German light cruiser,, to which Beatty gave chase and again quickly overcame.

He also owned 19 ancient Egyptian papyri that he gave to the British Museum, including the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and the Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus .< REF NAME =" MARRY-2004 "> Marry 2004 .</ ref > He moved his collections to Dublin, Ireland, in 1950.

* Bwana Clyde Batty-A British explorer character, who gave Billy Van a chance to use his Micheal Caine impression, who teaches about wild animals on Zany Zoo and His name is a spoof of animal trainer Clyde Beatty.

In 1943 the " Distinguished Civic Service Award " for 1942 in Montreal was presented posthumously to him by the City Improvement League of Montreal, one of the many projects for city betterment to which Beatty gave so generously and turned his talents towards.

Beatty was an intelligent and able leader, but all his social and sporting obligations, coupled with his high-strung temperament, prevented him from becoming a coldly calculating professional like Jellicoe – or his adversary, Hipper.

Stanley Colville was placed in command of the gunboats attached to the British expeditionary force in Egypt and as Beatty's former commander in Trafalgar and superior in ' Alexandra ' he requested that Beatty join him.

A " probably apocryphal " story relates that as Beatty walked into Churchill's office at the Admiralty, Churchill looked him over and said, " You seem very young to be an Admiral.

The new command came with a competent Flag Lieutenant, Charles Dix, but Beatty was not happy with him, and anyway the former commander of the squadron wanted Dix to accompany him to his new command.

Beatty chose Lieutenant Ralph Seymour as his successor, despite Seymour being unknown to him.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

Montag threatens Beatty with the flamethrower and ( after Beatty taunts him ) burns his boss alive.

In a scene written years later by Bradbury for the Fahrenheit 451 play, Beatty invites Montag to his house where he shows him walls of books left to molder on their shelves.

Beatty himself recalled the episode: " In some patricidal attempt to stand up to the great Kazan, I arrogantly and stupidly challenged him on it.

" Beatty, years later, during a Kennedy Center tribute to Kazan, stated to the audience that Kazan " had given him the most important break in his career.

Beatty had lobbied hard for Cary Grant to accept the role of Mr. Jordan, going so far as to have Grant's ex-wife, Dyan Cannon, urge him to take the part.

In a 1975 interview, John Lennon recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music.

Publicly, Vice Admiral Beatty was regarded as a hero, although he had taken little part in the action or planning of the raid, which was led by Commodore Tyrwhitt and conceived by him and Keyes, who had persuaded the Admiralty to adopt it.

Tyrwhitt signalled Beatty requesting reinforcements, and Goodenough with the four cruisers remaining with him came to assist.

In 1978, Keaton became romantically involved with Warren Beatty, and two years later he cast her to play opposite him in Reds.

In the film, she played Louise Bryant, a journalist and feminist, who flees from her husband to work with radical journalist John Reed ( Beatty ), and later enters Russia to locate him as he chronicles the Russian Civil War.

Looking to take the initiative, Trenchard arranged to see Beatty, meeting with him in early December.