She was also nominated the next year for her hilarious supporting role in Blazing Saddles (1974) in which she parodied Marlene Dietrich's character in Destry Rides Again (1939). The versatile comedy actress, Madeline Kahn, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paper Moon. Polly Platt, the production designer on Paper Moon, is Peter Bogdanovich's ex-wife.Īt the age of 10 years and 148 days, Tatum O'Neal became the youngest person ever to have won an Academy Award in a competitive category she was four years younger than her rival nominee, Linda Blair, in The Exorcist (1973). Since I am more interested in it, it comes easier for me." Bogdanovich was quoted as saying, "I have more affection, more affinity for the past. This was director Peter Bogdanovich's second film photographed in black and white, the first being The Last Picture Show (1971).
One important aspect of Paper Moon is Laszlo Kovacs' celebrated black and white cinematography. Included are such Depression era standards as "A Picture of Me Without You," "Mississippi Mud," "About a Quarter To Nine," "Georgia On My Mind." "After You've Gone," and "The Music Goes Round and Round." The music in the background and on the radio was culled from the record collection of Rudi Fehr. The soundtrack is a crucial piece of the film's captivating milieu.
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Paper Moon became an unsuccessful, short-lived television series in 1974, starring Christopher Connelly and future two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster. Ryan O'Neal said that he hoped that Paper Moon would exonerate him from the overwhelming success of Love Story (1970), a film he found hard to live down and which threatened to typecast him as an Ivy League yuppie.
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The other Academy Award nominations for Paper Moon were for Best Sound, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress Madeline Kahn who almost steals the movie with her sad-funny portrayal of Trixie Delight, a pathetic carnival stripper. Bogdanovich said later that working with Tatum O'Neal was "one of the most miserable experiences of my life." Nevertheless, the end result won Tatum the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, making her the youngest actress to ever win that award. It was Tatum's first film role and, from most reports, she was difficult on the set. Luckily, the assignment fell to Peter Bogdanovich who cast Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum.
Originally, Paul Newman and his daughter, Nell Potts, were to star in Paper Moon with John Huston as the director but the project fell through. In fact, there is a homage to Ford in the scene where Moses and Addie are in a diner and across the street, the movie house is playing Ford's Steamboat 'Round the Bend (1935). It's hard to say why he went off the tracks on those subsequent productions but Paper Moon is a winner all the way, from its evocative black and white cinematography that perfectly captures the Midwest during the Depression to the vintage soundtrack which includes tunes performed by Ozzie Nelson, Hoagy Carmichael, and Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra.īogdanovich, who was a film critic before he became a filmmaker, was heavily influenced by the work of Howard Hawks and John Ford and you can see their influence throughout this film the humor has the sharpness of Hawks' best comedies while the characters and settings recall the work of Ford and his affection for rural America. Johnson (Imogene), Jessie Lee Fulton (Miss Ollie).īased on the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, Paper Moon was Peter Bogdanovich's last popular success before a string of flops like Daisy Miller (1974), At Long Last Love (1975), and Nickelodeon (1976) made him box-office poison in the mid-seventies. Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, based on the novel by Joe David BrownĬast: Ryan O'Neal (Moses Pray), Tatum O'Neal (Addie Loggins), Madeline Kahn (Trixie Delight), John Hillerman (Deputy Sheriff Hardin/Jess Hardin), P.J. In record time, Moses enlists her as a partner in his deception of unsuspecting rubes. However, Moses' new traveling companion is no angel (she smokes and curses) and she's a quick study in the art of the hustle. He soon finds himself pressured into escorting the young orphan to relatives in St. While attending the funeral of one of his former girlfriends, Moses discovers that the deceased left behind a nine-year-old daughter named Addie. During the Depression era, a traveling salesman named Moses Pray makes his living in the mid-West conning widows into buying his Bibles.
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