TCM Schedule for Friday, August 15, 2014 -- Summer Under The Stars - Faye Dunaway

[Staph]

Today's Star is Faye Dunaway, born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida. In her years of performing she has earned an Oscar (Chinatown (1974)), three Golden Globes (Network (1976), Ellis Island (1984), and Gia (1998)), an Emmy (Columbo (1971)), and a Bafta (for both Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Hurry Sundown (1967). Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
Dir: John Frankenheimer
Cast: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
C-80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Last film of Barry Kelley, an actor adept at portraying heavy-handed Hollywood heavies.


7:30 AM -- The Happening (1967)
A kidnapped gangster joins forces with the hippies who abducted him.
Dir: Elliot Silverstein
Cast: Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks
C-101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

During The Happening's shoot, Robert Walker Jr. was working on two projects at the same time. The second week of filming he did double duty shooting an episode of The Time Tunnel (1966), where he played Billy the Kid.


9:20 AM -- 100 Years At The Movies (1994)
This short documentary celebrates the centennial of American filmmaking through a montage of clips of influential motion pictures.
Dir: Chuck Workman
C-9 mins,


9:30 AM -- Cold Sassy Tree (1989)
An independent woman from the North creates a scandal when she decides to marry a Southern general-store owner.
Dir: Joan Tewkesbury
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Richard Widmark, Neil Patrick Harris
C-97 mins,

Based on the novel by Olive Ann Burns, and filmed on location in Concord, Georgia.


11:15 AM -- The Champ (1979)
A washed-up prizefighter fights to keep his son.
Dir: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder
C-123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Score -- Dave Grusin

After looking at thousands of child actors, screen testing Ricky Schroder and putting him up in a hotel with his family, the producers finally offered him the role on the condition that his parents sign an exclusive, 7-year contract on his behalf. Schroeder's mother refused, saying she couldn't do that to a little boy, and prepared to return home with her family. The producers relented, and offered the role with no strings attached.


1:30 PM -- Oklahoma Crude (1973)
With the help of a hired hand, a woman fights off a conglomerate out to steal her oil well.
Dir: Stanley Kramer
Cast: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills
C-112 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

The song "Send a Little Love My Way", by Henry Mancini and Hal David, was featured in the film and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1973.


3:30 PM -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Dir: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
C-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won Oscars for Best Actress in a Supporting Role -- Estelle Parsons, and Best Cinematography -- Burnett Guffey

Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Warren Beatty, Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Faye Dunaway, Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Gene Hackman, Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Michael J. Pollard, Best Director -- Arthur Penn, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen -- David Newman and Robert Benton, Best Costume Design -- Theadora Van Runkle, and Best Picture

In one scene, while holding up a bank, Clyde Barrow tells a farmer he can keep his own money. ("Is that your money or the bank's?" "It's mine." "You keep it then.&quot In real life, it was bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd who allowed a farmer to keep his own money during a holdup.


5:30 PM -- Little Big Man (1970)
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer.
Dir: Arthur Penn
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam
C-140 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Chief Dan George

The line "Today, is a good day to die", largely used by Star Trek Klingons, was first said in this film by Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George).



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: FAYE DUNAWAY



8:00 PM -- The Three Musketeers (1973)
A country boy joins the famed musketeers and fights to protect the queen's name.
Dir: Richard Lester
Cast: Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed
C-107 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

As a result of the producers splitting the film into two parts, Screen Actors' Guild contracts now often feature what is called a "Salkind Clause," which requires producers to state up front how many films are being shot, and that the actors involved must be paid for each. The latter clause applies even, or even especially, when producers make that decision during or after production.


10:00 PM -- Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
Dir: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
C-117 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Film Editing -- Fredric Steinkamp and Don Guidice

In her biography "Looking for Gatsby", Faye Dunaway says of this film: "Now I'm sorry but the idea of being kidnapped and ravaged by Robert Redford was anything but frightening. ([At one point, after Redford temporarily left the set and director Pollack took over his role for the scene where Dunaway's character might be attacked) the cameras were rolling, I was in position, and suddenly Sydney lunged at me, growling 'I AM GOING TO GET YOU!'. I'm tied up at this point, unable to get away or move much at all, but Sydney kept moving toward me, his eyes glaring at me as he went on detailing all the horrible things he was going to do to me, and let me tell you, Sydney has an inventive mind. He is also a great actor, and he scared the hell out of me. Sydney kept the camera rolling and he was relentless".


12:00 AM -- Chinatown (1974)
A Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
Dir: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez
C-130 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay -- Robert Towne

Nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Jack Nicholson, Best Actress in a Leading Role -- Faye Dunaway, Best Director -- Roman Polanski, Best Cinematography -- John A. Alonzo, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration -- Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell and Ruby R. Levitt, Best Costume Design -- Anthea Sylbert, Best Sound -- Charles Grenzbach and Larry Jost, Best Film Editing -- Sam O'Steen, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score -- Jerry Goldsmith, and Best Picture

After Ali MacGraw was discarded (after her divorce from Evans and remarriage to Steve McQueen), producer Robert Evans wanted Jane Fonda for the part of Evelyn Mulwray while Roman Polanski insisted upon Julie Christie. When Christie passed on the script, they settled for Faye Dunaway.


2:15 AM -- The Arrangement (1969)
A car crash causes a rich man to reconsider the life he leads.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
C-126 mins, Letterbox Format

Faye Dunaway's fee for this film was $600,000, far more than Elia Kazan wanted to pay her. His next film, "The Visitors", was a small independent production made with unknown actors and a skeleton crew far away from Hollywood. Kazan claimed that this was a reaction to the excessive cost of "The Arrangement" and liked to say that the whole film was made for the same amount that Ms. Dunaway's agent had made out of the previous film.


4:30 AM -- A Place for Lovers (1969)
An American fashion designer with a fatal disease falls for an Italian engineer.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer
C-88 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

[rdmtimp]

1. Her Oscar win was for "Network", not "Chinatown"

I was hoping they'd show "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" (1970). It was written by Carole Eastman (Five Easy Pieces) and was the directing debut of Jerry Schatzberg (he went on to do The Panic in Needle Park, Scarecrow, Honeysuckle Rose, Street Smart).

[CBHagman]

2. TCM's profiles of Faye Dunaway...

...get the Oscar win right, but the most recent one omits the extensive biographical details of an earlier posting.

I've tried to posting the links both profiles but every time I attempted that, TCM redirected me to the nonoperational page. Aargh.