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Faye Dunaway will talk about Marlon Brando, but don’t dare ask her anything about “Mommie Dearest”
Beware of what you say in phone messages because they can live on and on and on – and then people can make funny videos about them.
Faye Dunaway has got to be pretty peeved about this voicemail rant she left for someone. I’m not sure when she left it or who she left it for but I just came across this video (see below) on Facebook and it is pretty damned entertaining.
Dunaway makes clear that she doesn’t want to talk about one of her ex-husbands or about Andrew Lloyd Weber firing her from the LA production of Sunset Boulevard before her first performance. And she certainly, most definitely, does not want to talk about Mommie Dearest, the cult sensation in which she plays Joan Crawford in very over-the-top style.
The gays love Mommie Dearest and have long wished Miss Dunaway would just relax and embrace it. But she wants to embrace working with Marlon Brando in Don Juan DeMarco which also starred Johnny Depp.
Can’t say I blame her. She was lovely in that film and she and Brando shared an easy chemistry.
Dunaway really should learn to take the good with the bad and not try and pretend widely-publicized things did not happen. She loves being a movie star and that’s part of the deal.
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Mark K. says:
When I was a newspaper editor in Dayton, Ohio, Faye Dunaway was starring in a touring production of “Master Class.” In her bio, “Mommie Dearest” was not listed. When a reporter asked her about the omission, she snapped and said it must have been an inadvertant mistake and she was “very proud of that work!” Uh-huh. Reeeally?
Gaspar Marino says:
I totally agree…everything happens for a reason and if Faye would just lighten up a little bit, maybe more people would want to work with her.
2201 East says:
It is said by some in the industry that to some degree doing “Mommie Dearest” ruined Faye Dunaway’s career; just to much identification with the Joan Crqwford character? When you think of Faye Dunaway, what film part do you think of immediately, Greg?
K. Martinez says:
For me when I think of Faye Dunaway I immediately think of “Chinatown”. Truly an awesome film. There are so many other great films she’s been in, that “Mommie Dearest” is probably one of the last films that comes to mind. I suppose she could come around like Patty Duke Astin did with “Valley of the Dolls”, but that was in my opinion a much better “bad” film.
Tom says:
It is somewhat sad that one of the most highly acclaimed actresses of her generation, both stage and screen, has become something of a sideshow connected to a campy piece of ‘pop puff’. I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve to be where it is: “Mommie Dearest” more than took on a life of it’s own, in large part because of the royalty it camped. It’s the very idea that Joan worked so hard to create and maintain her personal ‘mirage’ that gave “MD” it’s staying power. In any case, I’m sure Faye Dunaway, who very much considered herself a ‘serious artist’, regrets “Mommie Dearest”. It’s a sort of weird ‘parallel arcs’ thing. Joan, the all too serious ‘star’, is now remembered as a cartoon for many. Faye, by portraying the cartoon almost too well, is now mostly remembered for just that.