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Faye Dunaway Fired From Play for Creating a 'Hostile' and 'Dangerous' Environment
Jezebel ^ | June 24, 2019 | Lauren Evans

Posted on 07/26/2019 7:36:34 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Here’s some scalding tea for you: Faye Dunaway was fired from what would have been a Broadway production of Tea at Five, thanks to some utterly unhinged behavior on-set.

According to the New York Post, the 78-year-old Dunaway lost her role playing Katharine Hepburn after production members accused her of creating a “hostile” and “dangerous” work environment. To the pull quotes!

The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig, sources say. Enraged at the cancellation, Dunaway began “verbally abusing” the crew. They were “fearful for their safety,” said one source.

Was this a one-off tantrum? An aberration for an otherwise kind and composed professional? Seems not.

But her behavior was unsettling at an early photo shoot. Someone gave her a salad for lunch and she threw it on the floor. She was watching her weight and said the salad would be better on the floor than in her hand.

The Post also reports Dunaway was often up to two hours late for rehearsals, and never bothered to learn her lines—difficult to pull off, it being a one-woman show. Despite having the script in hand for six months, she got through previous performances of the play by being fed lines through an earpiece.

While in rehearsal she left what one production source called “troubling, rambling, angry” voicemails to the creative team during the middle of the night. She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me,” she said. When she was rehearsing on stage at the Huntington no one was allowed to move in the theater because that also distracted her.

Apparently Dunaway “hates white,” which must make every day living around things like paper towels and Maltese dogs and clouds very difficult. It’s hard being Faye Dunaway!


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: broadway; dementia; dunaway; fayedunaway; hepburn; hollywood; katherinehepburn; newyork; teaatfive; theater; theatre
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I’m a movie an
Sitcom freak and
It’s a fine way to
Make a living,
One can sell their
Soul for a bowl of Soup.


61 posted on 07/26/2019 9:14:50 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille.”


62 posted on 07/26/2019 9:21:29 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Fabulous performance, fabulous movie. I also loved William Holden it and in everything. I think he died relatively young. Booze.


63 posted on 07/26/2019 9:30:04 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: Veto!

Ironically, Holden’s last big role was opposite Dunaway in “Network”.


64 posted on 07/26/2019 9:34:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Veto!; Publius

I saw “Sunset Boulevard” for the first time ever about a year ago. It was an absolutely fascinating study of a faded star’s descent into insanity and trying to desperately hold on to her past stardom.


65 posted on 07/26/2019 9:43:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: EdnaMode

Alzheimer’s setting in?


66 posted on 07/26/2019 9:46:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: EdnaMode
Fay Dunaway as she appeared during the play rehersals:


67 posted on 07/26/2019 9:50:21 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: jonrick46

Kind of looks like a fish...


68 posted on 07/26/2019 9:53:04 PM PDT by northislander
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To: dfwgator
She was great in “Network”.

she was and it was probably the most prophetic film of the 1970s. While I thought it was complete satire as a young teenager naive about the world. I was amazed at how much of it came true through out my adult life.

69 posted on 07/26/2019 9:55:36 PM PDT by stig
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To: stig

Barfly...


70 posted on 07/26/2019 9:56:28 PM PDT by northislander
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To: EdnaMode
Has Nadless Subpoenaed her yet?
71 posted on 07/26/2019 9:59:38 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: EdnaMode

Some actors get old, pompous and obnoxious. It’s sad. Jerry Lewis was another one.


73 posted on 07/26/2019 10:21:48 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Rastus
But people in the know say it was terrible character assassination of Joan based on a book by someone with an axe to grind.

That may be true, but here's the rest of the story. Joan adopted Christina from a baby broker in Nevada, after being turned down to adopt in the state of California. Later searches through the adoption records showed that Christina adoption had been handled through the Tennessee Children's Home Society. Years later, it was determined that the Tennessee Children's Home Society had been kidnapping children and putting them up for adoption.

74 posted on 07/26/2019 10:34:43 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: nopardons

Bipolar perhaps?


75 posted on 07/26/2019 10:46:59 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: EdnaMode
The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig, sources say.

Well, if they quit trying to wear her wig, maybe she would stop being so mean.
76 posted on 07/26/2019 10:58:45 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: GnuThere

Yeah, it sounds sad more than anything else.


77 posted on 07/26/2019 11:03:31 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: mumblypeg

I don’t know...maybe. But Dunaway has been a “problem” for quite some time, it seems. The N.Y. Post had quite a large write up/article about her and this latest firing.


78 posted on 07/26/2019 11:08:03 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EdnaMode

Sounds like Jake Gittes needs to slap her around some more.


79 posted on 07/26/2019 11:10:31 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: EdnaMode

Incredibly gorgeous and brilliantly talented... in her day.

BONNIE & CLYDE — CHINATOWN — NETWORK.

Getting old is tough on everyone — especially tough on actresses — and even tougher on some actresses...


80 posted on 07/26/2019 11:21:48 PM PDT by karnage
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