tlcarpenter3's video: The Country Girl 1982 Faye Dunaway Dick Van Dyke Ken Howard

the faye VHS preservation project__Dunaway writes in her autobio Looking for Gatsby: "About that time, I was approached about starring in a remake of The Country Girl to be aired on the cable network Showtime, as part of its Broadway series. It was to be staged more like the original Clifford Odets play than a movie. I had loved the 1954 classic starring Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby. It was exactly the kind of part I was looking for, substance without glamour, a woman with strength and softness. Dick Van Dyke was cast as the alcoholic actor desperate for a comeback, and I would play the long-suffering wife, a part which had won Kelly an Oscar. Ken Howard, big and blond, played the director, the man who holds Van Dyke's comeback in his hands. It was the role Bill Holden had played in the original. I had long wanted to do The Country Girl. I had read the play many, many times. It was one of the books and plays that I would turn to when I would get up in dead of night not able to sleep. I would read sections into my tape recorder, listen to the playback, and do it until I thought it sounded right, sounded true. I was anxious to get those words to work with, to finally try them out for real. I came to adore Dick Van Dyke, who is without question one of the sweetest and funniest men in the world. Though it was a valiant effort on all our parts, and there were moments that I thought were good and true, the remake fell short of our hopes and certainly of the original. Bu doing it helped remind me that I do love this business of acting, something the Crawford movie had come close to making me forget."