Faye Dunaway "The Extraordinary Seaman", a comedy adventure directed by John Frankenheimer and also starring David Niven that she shot right after "Bonnie and Clyde", was released to poor reviews and proved to be a commercial failure. Despite protests from her agent, Dunaway turned down a lot of high-profile projects in order to spend time with Mastroianni. In 1970, Dunaway took a supporting role as a favor to Arthur Penn in his western, "Little Big Man". In a rare comic role, Dunaway played the sexually frustrated wife of a minister who helps raise and seduce a boy raised by Native Americans, played
Faye Dunaway Aching Heart". Dunaway will star as Katharine Hepburn in an updated version of Matthew Lombardo's one-woman play "Tea at Five", which was first staged at Hartford Stage in 2002. The production will mark the play's Broadway premiere, and will run as a strictly limited engagement in the summer of 2019. Dunaway is regarded as one of the greatest and most beautiful actresses of her generation, as well as a powerful emblem of the New Hollywood. Joan Crawford praised Dunaway in her 1971 book, "My Way of Life". "Of all the actresses, to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and