Article: Warren Beaty: to some he was the ultimate playboy, to others the consummate puritan. But as a new biography reveals, it was a contradiction that's pure Warren Beatty. Here, an exclusive first look.(LEGEND--BEHIND THE SCENES)

For most of the '60s, Warren Beatty was a Hollywood juvenile working hard to get the movie industry to pay attention to more than just his dazzling smile. He'd already made interesting choices in early film appearances--a gigolo in Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, a sad boy in love with a stunning but unstable Natalie Wood in William Inge and Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass (both 1961)--but Beatty knew it would require a career-making move to get the kind of opportunities he craved. And that's exactly what the 30-year-old actor created for himself in 1967, when he picked up, produced, and starred in a script about two real-life Depression-era ...

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