Warren Beatty of the film, he credited Hackman with giving the "most authentic performance in the movie, so textured and so moving," recalls Dunaway. He was impressed with Gene Wilder after seeing him in a play and didn't even need him to audition, in what became Wilder's screen debut. And Beatty had already known Pollard: "Michael J. Pollard was one of my oldest friends," Beatty said. "I'd known him forever; I met him the day I got my first television show. We did a play together on Broadway." "Bonnie and Clyde" went on to be a critical and commercial success, despite the
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