Why Faye Dunaway' career Went Downhill fast?!

Publish date: 2024-05-06

Starting from the late 1970s, her career went to the toilet , was it because she lost her looks or because of Mommie dearest?!

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by Anonymousreply 31April 23, 2018 3:40 PM

We've already done this thread a million times, OP.

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by Anonymousreply 1January 5, 2018 3:23 AM

R1 It's worth doing again. Calm down.

By now it's common knowledge that the film Mommie Dearest torpedoed Dunaway's career. Hollywood couldn't accept or forgive that one of their greatest iconic stars - Joan Crawford - had been dragged through the mud so soon after her death. In Faye's memoir she stated that a top Hollywood producer told her that Mommie Dearest badly damaged her movie career and she thanked him for his honesty.

Anne Bancroft was set to play Joan in Mommie Dearest but she dropped out - and dodged a big bullet!

by Anonymousreply 2January 5, 2018 3:36 AM

[italic]Supergirl[/italic] was worse for her career than [italic]Mommie Dearest[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 3January 5, 2018 3:39 AM

Mommie Dearest developed a high cult following - still does - but Faye wasn't taken seriously as an actress after this mess.

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by Anonymousreply 4January 5, 2018 3:40 AM

I don't believe anyone in power gave a damn about Crawford. Dunaway made the unforgivable mistake of getting older. And she wasn't still big enough for people to overlook her diva act. She is remarkable in the film and perhaps that ferocity was scary to some.

by Anonymousreply 5January 5, 2018 3:43 AM

R5 I agree with you, Mommie dearest was just an excuse. No one of the 1980s Hollywood producers gave a fuck about Crawford. Faye lost her looks starting from 1976 (because of age and unhealthy lifestyle ) and her unlikable difficult behavior. Bette Davis said Faye was impossible and the worst to work with!

by Anonymousreply 6January 5, 2018 3:59 AM

I loved her in Supergirl!

by Anonymousreply 7January 5, 2018 3:59 AM

What about that Kusturica movie that she was BRILLIANT in, that was the hit of all the Europe and Cannes, but not well sold in this country?! Or how about that Marlon Brando film she was WONDERFUL in?!

by Anonymousreply 8January 5, 2018 4:08 AM

R8 Faye Dunaway Angry Voicemail

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by Anonymousreply 9January 5, 2018 4:12 AM

There are LOTS of difficult people to work with in Hollywood - their name is legion. Yes, Faye Dunaway was difficult but it didn't ruin her career - Tinsel Town is accustomed to working with demanding divas. Obviously some other factor was involved. Mommie Dearest a was turning point in her film career and it moved her in the wrong direction in more ways than one. The once Golden Girl took quite a tumble and never really recovered from her ghastly movie choice. But she had it all, including the Oscar, for awhile.

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by Anonymousreply 12January 5, 2018 4:31 AM

Heroin. Or so the story goes.

by Anonymousreply 15January 5, 2018 5:26 AM

I saw her in a Columbo from 20 years ago and she was luminous.

by Anonymousreply 16March 27, 2018 5:16 PM

She got older, which has always been bad for women in Hollywood and made some poor movies.

by Anonymousreply 17March 27, 2018 5:56 PM

Bette Davis was a vindictive old hag publically attempting to destroy Faye's reputation. I'm glad that Bette's health declined and her body was decimated by that stroke, it's exactly what she deserved for being such a rotten human being. God paid some karma to that bitch.

by Anonymousreply 18March 27, 2018 5:59 PM

In her autobiography she said she moved to the UK to raise her son (who she claimed to have given birth to but her ex a few years ago admitted Liam was adopted) and only took the occasional role that was filming there. It wasn't until their marriage went bust that she moved back to the US. Oddly enough, in an old (I think) People magazine interview she did just before Mommie Dearest came out, she was talking about all these projects she was planning to do which made her sudden decision to move to the UK so odd. Though maybe part of the reason she moved to the UK is because she could better hide the fact she was never pregnant.

by Anonymousreply 19March 27, 2018 6:01 PM

[quote]Starting from the late 1970s, her career went to the toilet

No, not the toilet. Just a cup of urine.

by Anonymousreply 20March 27, 2018 6:06 PM

It was a combination of things. She picked a string of movies that were flops. She was addicted to heroin, and impossible to work with. She was getting older, and she simply had a limited range as an actress.

by Anonymousreply 21March 27, 2018 6:13 PM

Most of the big player actresses of the 70s careers went into decline in the 80s Faye was no different.

by Anonymousreply 22March 27, 2018 6:15 PM

I'll take the combo platter, both MD and her looks. MD showed that her acting was really shit and then she turned her looks freakish with all the work she had done. If she had the acting chops to really do characters and allowed her self to grow old naturally, I think she'd still be working a lot.

by Anonymousreply 24March 27, 2018 6:45 PM

I never heard of Faye becoming addicted to Heroin. Do you guys have any more info about that?

by Anonymousreply 25March 27, 2018 7:06 PM

In his memoir Joe Eszterhas said she would call him and leave messages on his answering machine repeatedly begging him to "write a secondary character" for her in ANYTHING he was working on or would be in the future.

by Anonymousreply 26March 27, 2018 7:19 PM

R25. No. It's just shit DL makes up to rub one off to like Andy Cohen banging Brent Corrigan. No non-DL source will ever back up such tales.

by Anonymousreply 27March 27, 2018 7:20 PM

BTW Please refer to me as Miss Dunaway.

by Anonymousreply 28March 28, 2018 6:48 AM

She really only had a twelve year window of being a big star--it started with "Bonnie and Clyde," and ended with "Mommie Dearest."

But in between she had a lot of big showy roles. "the Thomas Crown Affair," "The Arrangement," "Puzzle of a Downfall Child," "Little Big Man," "the Three Musketeer," "Chinatown," "Three Days of the Condor," "Network," "The Towering Inferno," "Eyes of Laura Mars"--after Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand she was probably the biggest female star of the 1970s.

She's not without talent, but she's extremely insecure and a perfectionist, and that combination is pretty deadly in Hollywood if you can't back it up with big box office. When she slipped people were eager to see her fall, an she did not help matters by having bad plastic surgery and acting insane.

But she genuinely can act (her performance in "Barfly" alone is proof).

by Anonymousreply 29March 28, 2018 7:05 AM

She can act. I don’t see how she did as well as she did in the 70’s with the Champagne and coke but I think the Piper came to collect on Mommie Dearest. She had been a nightmare to work with, on drugs, full of herself and some were waiting for her to fuck up. She did, probably due to drugs and it stopped her career cold a good 5-10 years before things really would have started to dry up.

Heroin? This I haven’t heard. Coccaine? Yes. Lots of booze? Sure. But heroin? Does anyone have a link? When did she kick?

by Anonymousreply 30March 28, 2018 6:42 PM

Bullshit, OP. It's going UP UP UP!

by Anonymousreply 31April 23, 2018 3:40 PM

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