Robert Towne

…in, produced, and wrote with Robert Towne. In it, Beatty plays a womanizing hairdresser who finds it impossible to juggle all his lovers on the eve of Pres. Richard Nixon’s election in 1968. Even more successful was Heaven Can Wait (1978), a showcase vehicle for Beatty’s comedic talents. For this…

…Earth (1960) was written by Robert Towne, who would later become renowned as the writer of the neo-noir film Chinatown (1974); Corman also drafted Towne as an actor, but Towne disguised both contributions under the pseudonym Edward Wain.