Faye Dunaway my career." The film was a critical and commercial failure but earned Dunaway a Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best New Star of the Year. Dunaway had tried to get an interview with director Arthur Penn when he was directing "The Chase" (1966), but was rebuffed by a casting director who didn't think she had the right face for the movies. When Penn saw her scenes from "The Happening" before its release, he decided to let her read for the role of the bank robber Bonnie Parker for his upcoming film, "Bonnie and Clyde". Casting for the role of Bonnie
Faye Dunaway from the TCM Classic Film Festival". Although she stated in a 2013 interview she felt her acting career was "pretty much over", Dunaway told Mankiewicz she had no intention to retire: "We live for work. We live for what we do. I just want to keep working. It's where I'm happiest." That same year, she guest-starred as herself in the season finale of season two of the mockumentary series "Documentary Now!". The episode, titled "Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid", was inspired by producer Robert Evans, with whom Dunaway worked on "Chinatown", and the 2002 documentary about