Faye Dunaway read her accounts of her Oscar-nominated performances as the taut, sexy, neurotic femmes fatales of "Bonnie and Clyde", "Chinatown", and "Network" is to learn from an expert about the instincts, collaborations, and compromises that go into great film acting". The following year, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and starred in the family comedy "Dunston Checks In", the crime thriller "The Chamber", which reunited her with her "Bonnie and Clyde" co-star Gene Hackman, and the directorial debut of actor Kevin Spacey, "Albino Alligator". Also in 1996, Dunaway returned to the stage, playing famed opera singer
Faye Dunaway as the villainous Milady de Winter in Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers", based on Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same name, co-starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Charlton Heston. Eventually, producers decided to split the film into two parts: "The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers" (released in 1974). Critics and audiences alike praised the film for its action and its comic tone, and it was the first in a line of successful projects for Dunaway. Director Roman Polanski offered Dunaway the lead role of Evelyn Mulwray in his mystery neo-noir "Chinatown" (1974). Although its producer, Robert Evans,