Heaven Can Wait

Even more successful was Heaven Can Wait (1978), a showcase vehicle for Beatty’s comedic talents. For this film, Beatty was nominated for Academy Awards in four separate categories (best actor, picture [producer], writing, and direction), an unprecedented achievement in Hollywood history and an achievement he was to repeat with…

…Life (1946) or Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait (1978). Film publicity makes much of the creation of epics such as Cleopatra (1963) or the three-part The Lord of the Rings (2001–03), but, even on a more modest scale, sets can contribute enormously to a motion picture, as in Ken Adam’s…

…Beatty and Buck Henry as Heaven Can Wait.

…script for his hit comedy Heaven Can Wait (1978) and reportedly helped him with the script for Reds (1981). She also served as an uncredited script doctor on Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie (1982). Beatty acted as producer when she wrote and directed the comedy Ishtar (1987), which starred Beatty and Hoffman…