15 of Warren Beatty’s Leading Ladies

Warren Beatty, the Heartthrob

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Tuesday Weld

Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Nothing prepared audiences for Wood’s doomed screen romance with Beatty as her weak-willed high school crush. Offscreen, matters were even more tumultuous: “Our affair,” wrote Wood, was “a combination three-ring circus and five-alarm fire.”

Natalie Wood

All Fall Down (1962) -As a violent, good-for-nothing drifter, Beatty falls in love with an older, vulnerable woman named Echo (Saint). Sparks didn’t fly between the actors, and tragedy ensued in the plot.

Vivien Leigh

Promise Her Anything (1966) -Turning to romantic comedy, Beatty played an adult-film director who falls for his next-door neighbor (Caron). She’s torn between him and a famous child psychologist (Robert Cummings), but — back when single motherhood dimmed one’s prospects — hides her infant son upstairs whenever either suitor drops by. “We were like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,” Caron once told London’s Daily Mail of her real-life relationship with Beatty. “The ‘It’ couple.”  

Eva Marie Saint

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Jean Seberg

The Only Game in Town (1970) - The movie was a major flop, but watch it today to catch two movie legends in their prime. The 38-year-old Taylor played an aging chorus girl, torn between her married lover and Beatty’s frustrated musician.

Leslie Caron

Shampoo (1975) - Hawn was evolving from a giggly girl on Laugh-In to a serious actress when she costarred as Beatty’s fellow bank robber in $, a 1971 heist comedy. By the time they teamed up again four years later on Shampoo, Hawn’s Hollywood star had gone supernova.

Susannah York

Reds (1981) - In Beatty’s best picture-winning epic, Keaton (as firebrand Louise Bryant) left her husband to join Beatty’s journalist, John Reed, in Russia, where he witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand. Beatty was “a person I loved in real time, not reel,” Keaton would later reminisce.

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Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Elizabeth Taylor

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Julie Christie

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Goldie Hawn

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Lee Grant

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Diane Keaton

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Madonna

Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.

Annette Bening

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Warren Beatty cedes the romantic lead to another actor — costar Alden Ehrenreich — in his new film, Rules Don’t Apply. But as our list of Beatty’s leading ladies proves, he will long be remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest lovers.