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Warren Beatty is, of course, known for his career as an actor and director, but during his 60 years in Hollywood, His personal life , including the many famous women with whom it is dated and has been linked, has also generated many conversations. One of these women is An American in Paris star Leslie Caron , with whom Beatty had an affair when she was still married to her second husband, theater director Peter Hall . Caron separated from Hall when she was in a romantic imprint with Beatty, but that didn't mean that she was ready to use ... at least not to the Bonnie and Clyde actor.

Now 91 years old, Caron explained why she refused several proposals from Beatty and what went wrong in their relationship. Read the rest to find out more about this 1960s romance, including her feeling that she was compared to her sister, Shirley Maclaine .

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Caron met Beatty for the first time in 1963. At the time, she was seven years old in her marriage to Hall, and they had welcomed two children together. The dancer and actor had already played in films of which An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958), and had recently appeared in 1962 The L -shaped part , for which she was nominated for a Bafta, a Golden Globe and an Oscar for the best actress. Beatty, meanwhile, had appeared in Splendor in grass And Mrs. Stone's Roman spring (the two 1961), but his greatest roles were not to come.

In its 2009 memories, Thank God , Caron explained that she was in Los Angeles for the globes and the Oscars when she met Beatty during a party given in her honor.

"He was five and a half less than me, irresistibly beautiful and intelligent", " She wrote in one except published by the Daily mail . (Caron would have been in the thirties and Beatty at the end of the twenty). "Coquette jokes stole backwards. After dinner, he offered to bring me back to the Beverly Hills hotel and swept me from my feet. I never arrived in my bedroom . Indeed, I dwell on another week and I had what they call a 'good time.' "

She said that in England, where she and hall lived, she spoke to her husband of Beatty and said that she wanted to separate. She also wrote in the book that their marriage was already tense. Hall tried to "save" their marriage to a "disastrous" trip to Marrakech before separating.

Caron writes in her book that when she and Beatty met, they became "the flavor of the year" and lived in the high style expected from them. "We moved into a penthouse suite at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, rolled in a continental Lincoln, black convertible and - when we did not go to holidays or the first - at the time of the 'in' restaurant, Frascati, three times a week. "

But, as the relationship continued, she encountered aspects of Beatty's personality who complicated their Glamor romance. She said he was constantly called when they were distant from each other and that he was otherwise very controlling. "He told me what to wear, how to make up and how to comb my hair; he even suggested that I go to his analyst to straighten my imperfect personality," wrote Caron. She also said he told her to refuse part in Mirage (1965) with Gregory Peck , which she would have accepted otherwise.

In an interview in 2021 with The Guardian ,, Caron told a story about Beatty Wake her to ask her if she thought of him while she was sleeping. She thought it was "funny".

"Yes, it's romantic when you are young and that someone obsessively thinks of you in the middle of the night. You are quite flattered," she said.

Caron also expressed that she felt that Beatty compared her to her sister.

"If you really want the truth, Warren always had friends who looked like his sister and I had a lot of his qualities," said Caron The Guardian . "I was a dancer, I had a very good silhouette, I was independent. Until he was a fully adult man, his sister was the central point of his life."

Likewise, she wrote in her book: "[H] e sucked in on the approval of her film sister, Shirley Maclaine - and he admitted once he thought that I looked a little like." None of you are beautiful, but you "re two dancers, after all," he said. ""

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That said, the main reason why Caron explained why she refused Beatty's proposals was that their lifestyle does not get well.

"He kept asking me and I kept saying:" No, Warren, no "," she said The Guardian . "Everything with him was too dramatic. I didn't think I could follow the pace. And I couldn't, and finally I left him because of that. He wanted everything to be so well announced. He liked to be dragged by journalists and to have everything you photographed. I just couldn't accept this kind of life. "

She added: "I am not someone who loves public life. In fact, it is incredible that I have become a movie star, because I am very shy and retired."

"I was two years old, but even at an early stage, I was not sure I could face the pace," she wrote in her book. "I started to suffer from stress and switch to anorexia. It was a clear signal that I could soon turn to a drink or drugs - all to escape." Not good. "

During their two -year relationship, Caron and Beatty played in the film Promise him anything , and their breakup occurred at the time of its release in 1965. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In his memoirs, Caron wrote: "Inevitably, we separated: Warren stayed in Hollywood ... I stayed in London, near my children. Good luck, Warren. We stayed friends all these years, Coward - and I'm always very happy to see you. "

Warren was not as to come on the relationship as Caron, but He mentioned it In an interview of 1967 with Squire : "Three years ago, I had a large Hollywood house with two swimming pools and a tennis court, but I abandoned it. I only had it when the children of Leslie were in town, they would have Place to play. "

Caron continued to get married for the third time to the director and the producer Michael Laughlin . Marriage lasted from 1969 to 1980. Beatty, now 86, married his wife, actor Annette Bening , in 1992. They are still together today and have four children.