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Warren Beatty’s Brown Trucker Jacket in The Parallax View
Warren Beatty as Joe Frady in The Parallax View (1974)
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Warren Beatty as Joe Frady, maverick political reporter
Seattle and Los Angeles, Spring 1974
Film: The Parallax View
Release Date: June 14, 1974
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Costume Designer: Frank L. Thompson
Background
The Parallax View was released 50 years ago today on Flag Day 1974—an appropriate observance for this second of Alan J. Pakula’s trio of politically themed paranoid thrillers that also included Klute (1971) and All the President’s Men (1976).
Warren Beatty provides one of the arguably best performances of his career as Joe Frady, an investigative reporter for an Oregon newspaper who is tipped to a deadly political conspiracy by ex-girlfriend Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) shortly before she too died under questionable circumstances attributed to a drug overdose. At a time when, in Joe’s words, “every time you turned around, some nut was knockin’ off one of the best men in the country,” Lee witnessed the assassination of a presidential hopeful three years earlier. Continue reading
Warren Beatty’s Blue Levi’s Jacket in The Parallax View
Warren Beatty as Joe Frady in The Parallax View (1974)
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Warren Beatty as Joe Frady, maverick political reporter
Rural Washington state, Spring 1974
Film: The Parallax View
Release Date: June 14, 1974
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Costume Designer: Frank L. Thompson
Background
Happy birthday to Warren Beatty, born 84 years ago today on March 30, 1937. A rising star through the ’60s, Beatty established himself as a forced to be reckoned with when he spearheaded production of Bonnie & Clyde in 1967, not only starring in but producing the acclaimed gangster film. Following his innovative success with Bonnie & Clyde, Beatty slowed down his career to only occasional movies, frequently going several years without acting while putting much of his energy into political activism and—more notoriously—dating his way through many of Hollywood’s hottest before marrying Annette Bening after the two co-starred in Bugsy.
One of Beatty’s most notable post-Bonnie & Clyde films was The Parallax View, the second in a trio of Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid political thrillers of the ’70s. Continue reading
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