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Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an idealistic young war veteran who has just begun working as a therapist in a mental institution in his Maryland hometown. His first patient is a sex-obsessed schizophrenic named Lilith (Jean Seberg), who quickly becomes smitten with him.
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Beatty was a star football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. Encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who had recently established herself as a Hollywood star, he decided to work as a stagehand at the National Theater in Washington, D.C., during the summer prior to his senior year. This enabled him to establish contact with a few famous actors. Upon graduation from high school, he turned down 10 football scholarships to enroll in drama school.
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Beatty's writing style: "Total immersion and sometimes adversarial," Towne chuckles. "It's important in working with him -- and this is something he made me realize fairly quickly -- that if you're advocating a course of action in a script, it better stand up to careful scrutiny. That very often means having to fight for the idea. He will test the validity with very close and sharp questioning. You can call it maybe the 'Last Man Standing' approach."
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