The Red Headed Corpse (1972)

A sickly-looking Farley Granger stars as an alcoholic artist struggling to live off his paintings.He eventually acquires a faceless woman's mannequin, which after he decides to paint it transforms into a beautiful, apparently living woman. At first the woman is mute, but eventually she talks just enough that Farley's painter gets abusive with her, while she embarks on a promiscuous lifestyle.