Let's be the life and work of Miss Faye Dunaway

I know what’s coming. I’m not mad at you, OP. I’m mad at the inevitable dirt.

I’m the large space that has developed between her nose and upper lip, creating a simian affect.

I'm that Kusturica movie, which was the hit of all the Europe AND Cannes, but not well sold in this country.

I am the phenomenal (and insufficiently discussed ) body of work, overshadowed by an unfairly maligned role as Joan Crawford . Even though I perfectly captured the behavior and mannerisms of a severely mentally ill woman .

I'm the 2018 Gucci campaign, as hypnotic and insane as ever.

Waaaaaaaah, ahhhhhhhhh!

I'm her plastic surgeon and I love her because she has made me some much $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ even though I do shitty work.

I'm the weights she wore around her ankles and wrists between takes on BONNIE & CLYDE. Weight loss was needed after a "comfort food" debacle on Preminger's HURRY SUNDOWN.

I am her biggest competitor for roles. In one interview, when asked the first word that comes to mind for FD, I'll say "sad".

I am her wigs.

I'm ex-boyfriend Frederick "Day of the Jackal" Forsyth. Don't we look good?

I am what becomes a legend most - -

I escaped long ago and will never be seen again.

I'm her 2007 Toyota Corolla she illegally parks all over West Hollywood.

I'm the food scale she carries when going out.

I am the VHS tape flung at the Blockbuster returns slot.

I'm the lithium she has been prescribed and never takes. I'm also the WIRE HANGERS!!!

I’m her former personal assistant who is writing a tell all. Non disclosure agreement be dammed. I took the original and deleted the copy on her computer before I quit.

I'm the Universal Studios Tour Tram she got stuck behind.

I'm her lack of sanity. WHAT DID YOU SAY?

I am misunderstood.

I am Diana Scarwid's Granny panties.

I am that movie that no one else in the world gives a fuck about that was the hit of all of Cannes.

I'm the masterpieces on her resume (Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network).

I’m her eyelids. I quickly became hooded and droopy in the mid 70s.

I am the chewed scenery.

I'm Dr. Zira, I have come to reclaim my maxilla.

I'm the LEGS of Laura Mars

I'm "the little homosexual boy."

If it weren't for me, Miss Dunaway wouldn't have any following at all.

[quote]r24 I’m her eyelids. I quickly became hooded and droopy in the mid 70s.

Well, not forever.

[italic]Nothing[/italic] on Faye's face is forever.

I’m the Loyd Webber stew piditee.

I am that capricious man - -

I'm the Norma who's still available for the movie

I have the same plastic surgeon

I'm Carol Ann, and I have a teensy bit to say:

R34 Her book was a hoot.

I am The Starlet -- the short-lived reality show from 2008 in which she was a judge.

I’m Box Office Poison

How the hell has she gained 1/2" inch of space between her nose and upper lip??

HOW THE FUCK??

I'm the veneers she got circa 2004. A wise idea, in theory, as she always some really bad teeth by any standards. But, in practice... well, I suspect I was mostly caused by her being a bitch to her dentist like I assume she was to her surgeon.

[quote]r35 [Rutanya Alda's] book was a hoot.

There really is something seriously wrong with Our Dorothy Faye. After Alda's book came out, Dunaway put out feelers to see if Alda would talk with her as part of researching her [italic]own[/italic] MOMMIE DEAREST memoir.

Did the brain damaged star even READ it?? Why would she think Alda would help her after the way she was treatedd on that film??

I'm Thrill dishwashing liquid

I'm her son, still hot, last photos we saw of him but less so now that Faye is living with him in his not huge apartment.

She looks like an 🦍

I'm this interview:

I'm the knobbly knees

My question exactly, r38! How the hell does that happen? Can a plastic surgery expert weigh in here? I’m genuinely curious to know what she had done and where it went wrong.

R44 Faye was so utterly insulted that the reporter dared to ask such an unladylike question about throwing a cup of urine that on the reporter’s way out, she threw a cup of urine at him.

Fayes face has fallen and it can’t get up.

She's either had her maxilla downgrated (unlikely), her upper lip reduced, or her nose shortened vertically. I'll go with the latter.

*downgrafted

OP, why are you showing us that photo of Mickey Rourke on a Faye Dunaway thread?

I'm the time Moonlight won Best Picture.

I'm also the time a PWC representative had there face spat in.

I'm the synthetic grey hair she pulled out of her "Tea at Five" wig with tweezers, because she thought the wig made her look too old.

I'm the fact she was supposed to be playing an eighty year old at the time, but hey-ho.

I'm the wonderful Marlon Brando who finds death a welcome relief after having worked with Faye Dunaway.

I'm her disdain for Hilary Duff. Fuck that little bitch.

I'm Hilary, who can out-bitch Faye any day of the week.

I'm the 1980s hard boiled egg she ate in Japan

Thomas Crown Affair chess scene. Loved how FD looked: hair, makeup, dress, nails (nude shades).

The humongous teeth veneers added to the space between her nose and her upper lip. Place your tongue over your front teeth and observe how that area stretches.

I'm 'Looking for Gatsby' -- the pretentious title of her not dishy autobiography.

I am sex on legs.

Thomas Crown is done!

Oral fixation, maybe?

We're the POSITIVE THINGS

I AM THE FISH OF THE DAY

[italic]I feel a little bad reprinting this, but ya know, history's history. THE WORLD MUST KNOW!

My friend once knew Dunaway casually (some time in the late 90s, maybe?), and this is some emailing we did once, when I was asking about what Dunaway was like.[/italic]

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JENNY: I was friends with Faye at the gym in West Hollywood. I saw her a lot and we used to talk. She wanted me to work for her and I said no. She went thru assistants like crazy and didn't pay. She had no money and owed everyone. She is super cranky and can't stand stupid, but I still idolized her; she is FAYE after all. She has perfect skin and said it was from her Polish mother. Faye was a fallen star ... she was just trying to keep it together. She was broke, at least for her, and just trying to not go crazy … just keeping her head above water and it was like no one gave her any credit or respect. It was sad. She was a super star! And gorgeous. I liked Faye but I would never work for her and yes she is a temperamental nightmare. She was great to me, but I was like a super fan. She drove a 450 SL. Ha. She lives in West Hollywood somewhere and her son lives in NYC and she would go to see him a lot.

ME: I think her career problem is that when she was active for decades, she was very demanding and sometimes downright rude to coworkers. AND to executives. So then when her star eventually faded, practically no one (except big costars like Jack Nicholson, who were her peers) had remotely pleasant memories of working with her. So when it came down to later roles between her and Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Ellen Burstyn, most people in charge were like, "Well, NOT Miss Dunaway…we know that!!"

JENNY: Exactly. That’s what happens. That is what happened to Demi Moore and Helen C#nt. Julia Roberts. too. All a pain in the ass and mean … so people got sick of it and said never again when a new crop came of age. But Faye is better than all of them combined

ME: But she is a legend, and deserves more work. She is also very hung up on her image and can basically just play very specific kinds of women. She will NOT let that glamour go!! (Though she was excellent in BARFLY when she did.)

JENNY: Oh yes… I agree. Well .. she def can act but that isn't that important these days. Sharon Stone sorta took her place for a while. Faye could have done Basic instinct

ME: Our poor little Faye. She never married a millionaire, either, like most of her peers did, which can come in handy, later.

JENNY: Yep. Well, I'm with Faye forever. Love her and all her bitchiness

ME: I only saw her once outside her house in West Hollywood...and she was THIN. It was so strange, because I've idolized her all my life, and suddenly I realized she was aging like all of us!! A makeup man who had worked on Dunaway did my makeup for a pilot once. He gave me a few of her beauty secrets.

JENNY: Her skin is amazing. I saw her looking like hell at the gym, which I always appreciated. With a stack of newspapers and reading glasses. She is very smart. What'd he say?

ME: She puts light colored makeup on her kneecaps underneath her nylons, because that area of the leg’s darker, and you want a visually smooth, unbroken line. I asked what else she did, and he said she would put makeup base in her palm and let it set there for a bit, to let body heat warm it. Then it goes on smoother. I was practically salivating.

JENNY: Awesome. I love it.

ME: You just know she's one of those stars (like Raquel Welch) who can do their makeup BETTER than half the makeup artists they're assigned. I bet she's grabbed the blush brush from a few...Those girls are PROS.

JENNY: Oh, Raquel was in the gym too! She is very very nice but completely made up and had her wig on. For workouts! Amazing shape.. I mean amazing. Perfect figure. Raquel even had lashes on! She would wear a leotard with a belt. Ha ha. And tights

ME: Welch has aged the best of all of them. She's part Bolivian, and Latin and black skin holds up better than tissue-paper-thin white skin, over time.

JENNY: Yep. Such a lady.

I'm the Little Homosexual Boy.

I'm the strange sadness I feel whenever I watch one of her early masterpieces. I'm always unexpectedly surprised when I realise, almost anew every time, that she was the real deal. And then she fucked it up by being a bonkers bitch.

I’m the loads of cash she could make if she would give in and embrace the camp and popularity of Mommie Dearest.

[quote]r67 she was the real deal. And then she fucked it up by being a bonkers bitch.

Well, she had a good time doing it, anyway. And few female stars last at the top for more than a decade, actually. Hollywood was designed by men to replace them.

PS: don't forget that cocaine played its part.

I'm young actress Helen Slater and I am fuckin' terrified right now.

Take the picture take the picture take the goddamn picture already please make it stop...

She sounds genuinely mentally ill. Bipolar? I feel a bit sorry for her. She is very talented. It doesn't sound like ego, she seems legitimately mentally ill.

R65 What a great e-mail exchange about our Faye!

cookiela from the imdb boards is that you?

I met her at the stage door for Master Class and she's was funny and nice to everyone around.

So there

She is NOT pleased with the tone of this thread.

I am puce chiffon. Faye wanders through The Towering Inferno in me, looking vaguely goddess-y, as Pauline Kael remarks.

She thought the rest of the film was shit.

I'm her squeaky fast orgasm on top of William Holden as she talks about ratings for the Mao Tse-Tung Hour before she cuddles and talks about her idea for a homosexual soap opera.

I love that scene. It helped win her an Oscar.

[quote]r75 I am puce chiffon. Faye wanders through The Towering Inferno in me, looking vaguely goddess-y, as Pauline Kael remarks. She thought the rest of the film was shit.

That costume sold in 2014 for $10,000. There were several versions made, to show distress as the "inferno" went on, so I don't know which one this really was. The label says #1, though it looks a tiny bit ratty ... maybe it just needed a good pressing?

[quote]A Faye Dunaway dress from The Towering Inferno: Twentieth Century-Fox/Warner Bros., 1974. Beige chiffon gown with a deep v-neck, ruching at the center, and panels of fabric at each shoulder that drape down the back, bearing a red-lettered Western Costume Co. label inscribed in black ink, "Faye Dunaway / No I."

It was also photographed on someone else (maybe for the auction catalogue?) and it doesn't quite have the same effect as when our Dorothy Faye wore it!

I'm La La Land, her greatest performance.

That's a scary photo of Faye, OP. How did she get Michael Lucas's mouth?

I'm Lula-Faye's hometown of Bascom. A town located in the panhandle, Jackson County, Florida, United States, located 5 miles south of the Alabama border. The population was 121 at the 2010 census.

[quote]r80 That's a scary photo of Faye, OP. How did she get Michael Lucas's mouth?

If Faye Dunaway looks bad, we as a society did that to her. We mock plastic surgery, but we also mock actresses for letting themselves go and looking their age. There's no way to win. Both routes are deemed grotesque.

Really, there's only so much you can do with an aging face. A few have miraculously managed to remain conventionally beautiful and in tune with their former selves post 60 ... but for just about everyone else, that standard is out of reach.

I'm lime, not lemon.

I am her beauty title as Sweetheart of Sigma Chi at University of Florida.

"I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR FAAAANS"

VARIATION ON A CLASSIC:

I'm one of her fans.

I'm one of the many of pairs of shoes I'm guessing she has thrown at one of her many assistants.

I can't tell where FD ends and Madonna begins. They look like twins.

I'm Faye, sneaking into a part that la Liz probably hoped for, and actually having a great time making it!

She actually looks like Abby Dalton ("Falcon Crest") in that first photo. I don't think Abby had the plastic surgery that her Faye-Ness has had, but Abby is still a decade older than La Dunaway.

I'm her backstage dressing room, from college theatrics.

She really looks like she was born with Down's Syndrome in OP's pic.

Your BUTT looks like it was born with Droopy Down Syndrome, R93!

EVERYONE says so!

I'm The Eldorado, and look what she did to me!

I was molested.

I'm the stray hair that Polanski forcibly plucked from Faye's head because he thought I was catching the light and spoiling his shot.

I'm Faye in "The Temp", wondering who stole and sold the recipe for my chewy chocolate crunch cookie.

Faye in "The Temp" is basically a retread of Joan in "The Best of Everything".

She certainly was the real deal- and as campy as Mommy Dearest is- she's terrific in it. Something is definitely wrong with her- she has had substance abuse (alcohol mostly) issues as well. It's kind of sad-

I approached her once in NYC having spotted her sitting down in a coffee shop. No one was bothering her at all, perhaps they did not recognized her (this was about 6 years ago). I asked her if she was Faye, the actress. She nodded and sad yes, pleasant expression. I said, "you are one of the great ones" and I've enjoyed your films or work- something like that. She thanked me, shook my hand. Pleasant, calm- I think I said something like enjoy your coffee and let her be. So- she's not always a monster. My guess is she has borderline personality disorder. In any case, she was a great film star, really of another era (earlier than her time.)

I just love this crazy ole dame

I’m the stacks of disheveled newspapers she hoards by the pool.

I saw Mommie Dearest at the Criterion Center in NYC during its original run in 1981. It was so well attended, my friends and I had to stand in line to buy a ticket. The crowd was so eager to see this film and everyone was gossiping about Joan.

Right ahead of me in line were two Olde Queens, roughly the same age I am now, some 38 years later. They were almost giddy with excitement to see Mommie Dearest on the silver screen. When they got to the Box Office and the first one asked for 'One Adult,' the cashier replied, "Five dollars." The two guys squealed. "Five dollars??? Joan Crawford, herself, never cost FIVE DOLLARS!"

They were so cute that I've never forgotten them or their joy in seeing this trashy book made into a trashy movie. Little did we know just how trashy it was going to be.

I'm the glass that Bette Davis never raised to Miss Faye Dunaway.

I’m the lettuce she throws on the floor and tomatoes she throws at assistants.

The Network sex scene is hilarious!

[quote]r105 I’m the lettuce she throws on the floor and tomatoes she throws at assistants.

[italic]Please, [/italic]Barbara...PLEASE!

I'm the chain she nervously wraps and unwraps around her wedding ring finger at the end of THOMAS CROWN, wondering what this scene will mean for her romance.

I am symbolic, I am ̶s̶t̶o̶l̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶. in tribute to legendary stage star Eleonora Duse, and I am an ACTING CHOICE!