Warren Beatty he named it for Kathlyn (whose nickname was "Tat") and Ira. At age 29, Beatty produced and acted in "Bonnie and Clyde", which would be released in 1967. He assembled a team that included the writers Robert Benton and David Newman, and the director, Arthur Penn. Beatty selected most of the cast, including Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder and Michael J. Pollard. Beatty also oversaw the script and spearheaded the delivery of the film. Gene Hackman was chosen because Beatty had acted with him in "Lilith" in 1964 and felt he was a "great" actor. Upon completion
Faye Dunaway convenient for her. That same year, she returned to the screen in Michael Winner's period melodrama "The Wicked Lady", in which she played an 18th-century highway robber. The film proved to be a critical and commercial failure. "Though I loved making "The Wicked Lady", in the end it just didn't have the juice it needed to be a hit. It seemed to never quite decide whether to be a farce or a drama, and so it failed by being neither." In 1984, Dunaway played the lead villain in the superhero movie "Supergirl". She felt that "the film was really just