The film connects Dunaway's volcanic personality to her stormy characters but also suggests that she was unfairly maligned for her demanding ways.
‘Faye’ Review: An Enticing Portrait of Faye Dunaway Looks at Where Acting Meets Life Meets ‘Difficulty’
‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’ Review: A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience, and Its Dark Side Too Dunaway, by her own admission, was demanding, perfectionistic, and nothing short of obsessive in the pursuit of acting — in other words, she was “difficult” because she possessed many of the qualities that male actors have been celebrated for, and are certainly more easily forgiven for. In “Faye,” we see a clip of the ancient Bette Davis on “The Tonight Show,” asked to name the star she’d least want to work with again.
Dunaway was born in 1941, and in the photographs we see of her when she was growing up, or as a student at Boston University , she looks like a moon-faced farm girl, as different from the star she would become as Norma Jean was from Marilyn Monroe. As a girl, Dunaway was known as Dorothy Faye, a name that, for her, now conjures a kind of alter ego — the innocent she was, and maybe still is deep down. But her acting ambition always pulled her to the fraught side of things.
It was O’Neill who staged and shot the famous photograph of Dunaway lolling next to a swimming pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel the morning after her Oscar win in 1977, and it’s one of the most profound of Hollywood portraits. The look on Dunaway’s face, which the film suggests is a look of “Is that all there is?,” could only have come from an actress of daunting ambition, one who now found herself somewhere over the rainbow of stardom.
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