Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean) Beaty (1903 - 1993)

Born 23 Aug 1903 in North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Ira Owens Beaty — married 15 Aug 1931 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 26 Feb 1993 at age 89 in Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Kathlyn Corinne MacLean was born on August 23, 1903, in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Dr. Murdock Maclean formerly of Boularderie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Blanche Lehigh of Ontario..^[1]

Kathlyn MacLean married Virginia-born Dr. Ira Owen Beaty in 1931.^[2] They were both teachers at the time of their marriage. Kathlyn taught drama in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

She died in 1993.^[3]

Children

She is the mother of actors Shirley Maclaine ^[4] and Warren Beatty.

Her daughter (named after Shirley Temple) Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia.^[5]

Shirley MacLaine, American film, televison and theatre actress, dancer, activist, and author, was, in her own words, “born into a cliché-loving, middle-class Virginia family” in 1934. Her father, Ira O. Beaty, was a psychology professor, school administrator, realtor, and amateur musician. Her mother Kathlyn was “a tall, thin, almost ethereal creature with a romantic nature” from Nova Scotia. A drama teacher who loved poetry and the theater, MacLaine’s mother introduced her to the ballet at age three, as a remedy for weak ankles. “There,” she wrote, “my imagination took anchor, my energy found a channel. What started as therapy became my life.” About her childhood, MacLaine said, “I have an orphan psychology, that’s what I’ve been told. See, my parents were always busy, so when I was about 11, I had to get up early to get off to school by myself and then to ballet class. I was the one navigating the buses and streetcars. I had no one to talk to, because by the time I got home my parents were in bed. So to navigate those waters, just to make it home each day, I had to keep asking myself, ‘Who am I?'^[6]

Her son Warren Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty on March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia.

Warren Beatty is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter whose career spans over six decades. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Births. Registration Year: 1908 - Page: 59100617 - Number: 59100619 https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/birth/?ID=216389
2. ↑ Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Marriages. Kathlyn Connie Maclean and Ira Owens Beaty married 1931 in Kings County Item can be found in Registration Year: 1931 Book: 63 - Page: 802 https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=206263
3. ↑ Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45244666/kathlyn-corinne-beaty
4. ↑ Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty, April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, eccentric women, MacLaine is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php title=Shirley_MacLaine&oldid=634112016
5. ↑ Shirley MacLaine Bio--https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000511/bio
6. ↑ Transcribing the Light: The Memoirs of Shirley MacLaine by Sally Speller, Supervising Librarian, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) March 1, 2021---https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/03/01/shirley-macclaine-memoirs
7. ↑ Warren Beatty - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Beatty

• "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRBW-G49 : accessed 27 Nov 2014), Kathlyn Beaty in household of Ira Beaty, Tuckahoe Magisterial District, Henrico, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 44-31B, sheet 19A, family 353, NARA digital publication of T627, roll 4269, NARA digital publication of T627, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.