By Kiesly Jameson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She is the recipient of many accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in 1967 in The Happening, the same year she made Hurry Sundown with an all-star cast, and rose to fame with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn‘s Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the romantic drama The Arrangement (1969), the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970), a two-part adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeers (1973, with The Four Musketeers following in 1974), the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974) for which she earned her second Oscar nomination, the action-drama disaster The Towering Inferno (1974), the political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), the satire Network (1976) for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), and the sports drama The Champ (1979).
Her career evolved to more mature character roles in subsequent years, often in independent features, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest. Her later films include Supergirl (1984), Barfly (1987), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Arizona Dream (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), The Twilight of the Golds (1997), Gia (1998) and The Rules of Attraction (2002). Dunaway has also performed on stage in several plays, including A Man for All Seasons (1961–63), After the Fall (1964), Hogan’s Goat (1965–67), and A Streetcar Named Desire (1973). She was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in Master Class (1996).
Protective of her private life, she rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. After romantic relationships with Jerry Schatzberg and Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway married twice, first to singer Peter Wolf and then to photographer Terry O’Neill, with whom she had a son, Liam.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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A similar phrase was first used in a poem called “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns: “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley, / An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain / For promis’d joy!” John Steinbeck used the last part of the phrase for the title of his popular novel Of Mice and Men, now a well-known moral fable, stage play, and movie.
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Born
- Benedict Arnold (General in U. S. Revolutionary War) –
- The Marquess of Lansdowne (Canadian Governor General 1883-1888) –
- Albert Schweitzer (physician) –
- Hugh Lofting (author) –
- John Dos Passos (novelist) –
- Faye Dunaway (actress) –
- Holland Taylor (actress ) –
- Carl Weathers (actor) –
- LL Cool J (rapper & actor) –
- Jason Bateman (actor) –
Died
- Edmond Halley (astronomer) –
- Lewis Carroll (author) –
- Humphrey Bogart (actor) –
- Jeanette MacDonald (singer) –
- Ray Kroc (fast food entrepreneur) –
- Shelley Winters (actress) –
- Darlene Conley (actress) –
- Ricardo Montalban (actor) –
- Conrad Stafford Bain (Canadian-American actor) –
- Alan Rickman (actor) –
Events
- The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted –
- First successful cesarean operation in the U.S. –
- Gideon Hawley became first state school superintendent in the United States (for New York state) –
- First nonstop trans-Canada flight completed –
- Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio –
- Diana Ross sang with the Supremes for the last time, Las Vegas, Nevada –
- The first probe to land on Saturn’s moon, Titan, signaled it survived its descent. The Huygens space probe was designed to last only minutes on Titan’s surface, but surpassed the expectations of mission managers. Huygens descended the atmosphere, contacted the surface, and transmitted for at least an hour and a half –
- Andean bear Billie Jean gave birth to the first of twin cubs, at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. –
- 40,000 pounds of liquid chocolate flooded I-40 due to overturned tanker near Flagstaff, Arizona –
- A tanker carrying 40,000 pounds (about 3,500 gallons) of 120-degree-F liquid chocolate became unhitched from the main truck and rolled over on westbound Interstate 40, at milepost 211, east of Flagstaff, Arizona. No one was injured. The biodegradable contents of the damaged tanker had to be pumped out onto the median so that the vehicle could be lifted onto a tow truck. It took crews about 4 hours to clean up the river of chocolate before several closed lanes could open once more. –
Weather
- Blizzard hit Chicago, Illinois –
- Burlington, Vermont, received 23.1 inches of snow in 24 hours –
- After two weeks of very cold weather, unseasonably warm temperatures accompanied by chinook winds and heavy rains were brought to northern and central Idaho. The catastrophic flooding caused mudslides that blocked and washed out sections of U.S. 95, Idaho’s main north-south highway. With total damage of about $50 million, it was called the worst natural disaster in the state’s history. –
- Avalanche near Park City, about 20 miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah –
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