Faye Dunaway had proved to be difficult and many actresses had been considered for the role, including Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld, Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley, Leslie Caron, and Natalie Wood. Penn loved Dunaway and managed to convince actor and producer, Warren Beatty, who played Clyde Barrow in the film, that she was right for the part. Besides her relative anonymity, Beatty's concern was her "extraordinary bone structure", which he thought might be inappropriate for Bonnie Parker, a local girl trying to look innocent while she held up smalltown Texas banks. However, he changed his mind after seeing some photographs of Dunaway taken by
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