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Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.
The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphaned girl, who travels with confidence man Moses "Long Boy" Pray in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression.Addie states at the beginning of the novel that Long Boy may or may not be her father; she says that her late mother was the "wildest" girl in her town, and that Long Boy is one of her three possible fathers.
and "Paper Moon," the movie that also launched his daughter's movie career, died on Friday at age 82. The performer's death was announced by his son Patrick O'Neal in an Instagram post.
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963 [1]) is an American actress.At the age of 10, she became the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon co-starring her father, Ryan O'Neal.
Ryan O'Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an Oscar-nominated role in "Love Story" and delivered a wry performance opposite his charismatic 9-year-old daughter Tatum in ...
The actor reteamed with director Bogdanovich on 1973’s charming yet unsentimental Depression-era comedy “Paper Moon,” which paired O’Neal winningly with his daughter Tatum — who went on ...
Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for Paper Moon (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. His performance in the film earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , and he was voted by exhibitors as the second-most-popular star of 1973 in the United States ...
"Love Story" turned O'Neal into a heartthrob for the entertainment press, and his 1973 Depression-era hit film "Paper Moon" — which also starred his daughter Tatum, 9 years old at the time ...