Warren Beatty

The dark-haired Virginia native shot to fame in 1961, starring opposite Natalie Wood in Elia Kazan's "Splendor in the Grass," and whose smoldering, swoon-inducing good looks made him one of the 60's and 70's legendary sex symbols. Just years after the explosion of Splendor in the Grass, his career had lost it's momentum and his on-screen potboilers were'nt nearly as memorable as his off-screen antics, which included romancing some of the silver screen's most beautiful women. Among his lovely conquests were Natalie Wood, Brigitte Bardot, Leslie Caron, and of course, Julie Christie. He re-claimed his throne as Hollywood's reigning sex symbol when he produced and starred in 1967's enormously successful "Bonnie and Clyde." Warren, along with Faye Dunaway, glamourized the story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the Depression-era bank-robbers who rocketed from small town criminals to national outlaws. Warren helped usher in a new generation of auteurs when he took over the reigns of the ailing project and served as producer. He was watching Bonnie and Clyde's first doddering baby steps when he met Julie Christie.

Julie Christie

The blonde, gray-eyed, Indian-born Brit's unconventional childhood started in the midst of World War II, with allied troops stationed just outside of her father's tea plantation in Burma. She impressed her Darjeeling schoolteachers with her talent of spelling over 250 words at the age of three, and could speak both English and Hindi by the time she was five. Sent away to England for a proper education when she was eight, the restless Julie proved to be too much for her grandmother and was then placed in the care of a woman whom Julie's parents cruelly claimed was her aunt, who in fact was a complete stranger who answered an ad placed in the paper by Julie's mother, searching for someone to look after Julie. After several schoolgirl misdemeanors got her expelled from convent school, Julie was sent to France where she lived with family members of the decaying French aristocracy. After the French had introduced her to her two greatest loves, art and history, she flew back to England as and adult, fluent in  French, with plans to become either an artist or a linguist. However, her plans were altered when she reached London and struck up a newfound interest in acting. She immediately enrolled in London's Central School of Speech and Drams, alma mater of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. After graduation, by now a classically-trained stage actress, she toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in "A Comedy of Errors," and landed an eleven-minute role as Liz in John Schlesinger's kitchen-sink drama "Billy Liar." One year later, in 1965, John Schlesinger cast her as amoral fashion model Diana Scott in "Darling," his celluloid portrait of 1960's "swinging" London. As if landing Darling wasn't luck enough, David Lean was busy casting his epic "Doctor Zhivago," the adaptation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel-prize winning novel of a love triangle set in the Russian Revolution. Lean found Julie to be perfectly fitting for the role of Lara, Zhivago's muse. After a nine-day camera test, Julie was cast as Lara and was on a plane to Spain where filming began. After completing the lenghty shooting schedule of Zhivago, Julie headed home to London, where Doctor Zhivago and Darling were released within weeks of each other. When Oscar nominations were announced, Julie found herself in the Best Actress roster, along with fellow Brits Julie Andrews and Samantha Eggar. But it was Julie who took home the golden statuette on April 14, 1965, her birthday. Dressed appropriately in gold from head to toe, Julie gratefully accepted her Oscar from Rex Harrison onstage at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorioum as she made a tearful acceptance speech. 1965 became the year of Julie Christie. She catapulted the miniskirt into an international fad, frequented London clubs "The UFO Club" and "The Ad Lib" with her "mates" as she called them, Michael Caine, Christine Keeler(who was about to be thrown into the infamous "Profumo Scandal"), The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Julie's boyfriend Terence Stamp, and the boys of Pink Floyd, and had every girl emulating her trademark messy blonde mane. She followed up the success of '65 with a starring role in Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451," Schlesinger would cast her again opposite Peter Finch, Alan Bates, and former beau Terence Stamp in "Far From the Madding Crowd," and in 1968 she was cast as kooky Petulia Danner in Richard Lester's "Petulia," in which she caught the eye of a certain fan, Warren Beatty.

Warren & Julie

Welcome to Warren and Julie Forever! This website is fondly dedicated to the memory of the now extinct Hollywood couple Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. However, they live eternally within this website, dedicated to everything regarding Warren and Julie. This wonderful couple enjoyed an eleven-year liaison, which produced three wonderful films, 1971's "McCabe and Mrs.Miller," in which Julie portrays the opium-smoking Constance Miller who sets up a brothel in the old west with Warren Beatty's John McCabe. In 1975, they starred together in "Shampoo," the story of a Beverly Hills hair stylist who just can't resist his beautiful clients until he realizes that his beloved ex-girlfriend is the only one he truly loves. In 1978's "Heaven Can Wait," Warren makes his directorial debut as a quarterback-turned angel who is given a second chance at life, and at love, in the body of a wealthy businessman. Sadly, the couple went their seperate ways in 1978 but remain close friends. Warren Beatty went on to win a best director Oscar for his Russian epic "Reds," embarked on a tumultuous affair with the material girl herself, Madonna, toyed with the idea of presidency, and the notorious playboy finally settled into family life with actress Annette Bening and their four children. Julie Christie's  post-relationship credentials, however, have been far less colorful. Having been one of the most sought-after stars of the 60's and 70's, the notoriously reclusive Julie gave up acting, disapearred from Hollywood and sought refuge on her quiet Welsh farm. In the 80's, she became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, animal rights, and several political causes, travelled to Africa and India to care for underprivelidged children, and to Palestine, to support Palestinian refugees. She resurfaced onto the screen in 1996, playing Queen Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet,"  won a richly deserved Oscar the following year for her portrayal of a psychotic B-movie star in "Afterglow," was seen as Brad Pitt's mother in "Troy," the Trojan drama of epic proportions, and can be seen in  "Finding Neverland," in which Ms. Christie's performance generated significant Oscar buzz. The merger of the ultimate Hollywood bad boy and the shimmering English beauty, whose romance sizzled both on and off-screen is immortalized here, where you can find everything pertaining to Warren and Julie.