Word: dunaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good year before she reached Eldorado in Bonnie and Clyde, Actress Faye Dunaway, 27, signed a six-picture deal with Producer-Director Otto Preminger, well known as the fastest litigant in the West. One turkey was born of that union-Hurry Sundown -and Faye went her own way to stardom. Now Preminger wants her back under the terms of their contract, and filed suit in New York complaining that she failed to show up for work as ordered for the beginning of a new picture. Otto wants damages, plus an injunction that would keep her from working for anyone else...
Bonnie, played by Faye Dunaway, is first glimpsed naked, a sensual Erskine Caldwell backwoods beauty imprisoned by her hot, airless room. Clyde, the jaunty, vacant car thief, played by Warren Beatty, offers her passage out of the Dust Bowl, with his gun as her ticket. To her dismay, she discovers that he is impotent. "Your advertising is just dandy," sneers Bonnie, after their first no-love session. "Folks'd never guess you don't have a thing to sell." Yet Clyde does have a salable commodity: movement in a time of inertia, elation in the midst of depression...
...television -got the chance to do The Fox when a studio executive saw a segment of / Spy that impressed him. Francis Ford Coppola, 28, is a precocious graduate of the nudie industry who is now doing Finian's Rainbow j for Warner Bros. Another untried talIent is Faye Dunaway's fianceé, Jerry | Schatzberg, 40, a still photographer of women's fashions, who is doing Puzzle of a Downfall Child...
Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Beatty) are the embodiment of this world of waitresses and gas station attendants. Clyde, the son of an itinerant farmer, is a small-time bank robber whose gun is a substitute for sexual potency. For Bonnie also, the gun is a release from the unfulfilled monotony of a West Dallas greasy-spoon. They fall in love, and a large part of the film is devoted to their specifically sexual frustrations, not as a clinical case study but as an emblem of waste and entropy...
...shooting and cutting alone, nonetheless shows real concern for achieving a set of convincing and consistent performances from major and minor players. Several performances are considerable achievements in their own right. Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons bring grim authority to three dull and aimless lives. Faye Dunaway will be a great star, she already is, and Beatty, with his utterly credible portrayal of Clyde, finally comes into...