And she had this irresistible, devilish charm.”. Tatum O'Neal won the Oscar for this at-times both heartless AND heartfelt romp, but Paper Moon truly is Bogdanovich's show, staking a phenomenal follow-up … I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another, and I'm here to kill you, Little Bill,” he tells old rival Gene Hackman. Jan 7, 2018 - One of my favourite films ever!. But the perception of her performance may have been tainted by the revelation that her demonic voice had been dubbed by Mercedes McCambridge (herself a Best Supporting Actress winner, for the 1949 movie All the King’s Men). ", Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised "two first-class performances" from Ryan and Tatum O'Neal but found the film "oddly depressing" and unable to "make up its mind whether it wants to be an instant antique or a comment on one". (Photo: CBS via Getty Images) "Would I love if my dad and I were closer? Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. Not only did Casablanca have Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains, but it also dealt with refugees, betrayal and wartime politics. Still the greatest sequel in Hollywood history, this film emulated its predecessor The Godfather, in winning the best picture Oscar and out-stripped it in the brilliance of its craftsmanship and performances. The ballet sequence at the end of the film stands alongside that in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes as a perfect example of filmmaking in which every element balances perfectly. Peter Bogdanovich also decided to change the name of the film from Addie Pray. It's bad enough Ryan O'Neal allowing his daughter to smoke at that age, never mind filming it. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. Annie Hall offers the New York based comedian’s familiar angst and also has a superlative performance from Diane Keaton as the free spirited, preppy heroine he falls in love with. Moses (Ryan O'Neal) and Addie (Tatum O'Neal) pull a scam on an unfortunate cashier in "Paper Moon": $20 Bill - Paper Moon (5/8) … Academy voters are sometimes accused of self-righteousness and prudery, but thankfully that didn’t stop them giving the best picture Oscar to The Apartment. She is also known as Michael Jacksons first girlfriend. “But in his eyes, I read the truth: deep resentment that his own brilliant performance was being dismissed.” Tatum O’Neal declined to comment for this article. [16] Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the film "very easy to take, especially as Alvin Sargent's dialogue has a nice edge of wit. The film project was originally associated with John Huston and was to star Paul Newman and his daughter, Nell Potts. Canby, Vincent (May 17, 1973). Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. There are no words," O'Neal said. Few other best picture winners are as engrained in the public consciousness as Casablanca. Michael Nordine The car Moses is driving when he agrees to take Addie home is a 1930 Ford Model A convertible; the car Moses buys to impress Miss Trixie is a 1936 Ford V8 De Luxe convertible. Whenever you see Tatum O’Neal light up a cigarette, Peter Bogdanovich informs us that they are not real cigarettes, but instead they are made out of lettuce leaves and were only available in Texas. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical traveling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. It’s not just the choreography or Gene Kelly’s wildly energetic performance as the aspiring artist in postwar Paris but the use of colour and sound. Arnold, Gary (June 15, 1973). n the surface, it seems like one of the most joyfully innocent moments in Oscar history: Tatum O’Neal became the youngest competitive winner in history, taking home the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 10 for the Depression-era comedy Paper Moon. Bogdanovich had worked with Tatum's father Ryan O'Neal on What's Up, Doc?, and decided to cast them as the leads. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she smokes, cusses, and is almost as devious and manipulative as he is. At a local grain mill, Moses convinces the brother of the man who accidentally killed Addie's mother to give him $200 for the newly orphaned Addie. See all photos. O’Neal — who won an Oscar at age 10 playing opposite her dad, Ryan O’Neal in the 1974 drama “Paper Moon” — said all the assaults were committed by … The film was shot in the small towns of Hays, Kansas; McCracken, Kansas; Wilson, Kansas; and St. Joseph, Missouri. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9 … With Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman. Tatum grew up in Los Angeles, California along with her brother Griffin ONeal. The film, shot in black and white for $2.5m, was a hit, earning more than $30m. Why Tatum O’Neal’s 1974 Oscar win was clouded in family drama. Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” somehow manages to make these two approaches into one, so that a genre movie about a con man and a little girl is teamed up with the real poverty and … Paramount released "Paper Moon" in 1973. Addie hides their money in her hat, steals back the key to their car, and the pair escape. The youngest actor to win remains Timothy Hutton, who was 20 when he was named Best Supporting Actor for Ordinary People in 1981. “Of course,” Jones points out, like Tatum O’Neal’s, “his was really a leading role, too.”. “Any child could have wiggled on the bed,” she told The New York Times in January 1974. “If there was any horror in the exorcism, it was me!” After the actress sued Warner Bros, the studio behind the film, “and Mercedes McCambridge” was added to the end credits. Much to Addie's chagrin, Moze invites "Miss Trixie"—and her downtrodden African American teenage maid Imogene—to join Addie and him. He congratulated his daughter by phone after the ceremony, but Tatum O’Neal wrote in A Paper Life: “I had little sense of accomplishment. During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. There was no fanfare from anyone who mattered to me, so the pride and self-worth I might have gained from what most people would consider a life-defining honour was leached away. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the film starred Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal. The brilliance of Bette Davis as the star and of Anne Baxter as the seemingly ingenuous but utterly ruthless young pretender is matched by George Sanders’ wonderfully acidic performance as the theatre critic, Addison DeWitt. Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal as a team of con artists in the 1973 comedy-drama "Paper Moon." The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. The trouble is that the film covers all the ground it is going to cover in the scene in the restaurant near the beginning when we, with Ryan O'Neal, first realise that the sweetly awful child is going to be more than a match for him as far as wits are concerned". After 16-year-old Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker) beat 10-year-old Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird) for Best Supporting Actress in 1963, “the academy realised child actors are just like adult actors and did away with the Juvenile Awards”, Arnold Wayne Jones, author of The Envelope, Please: The Ultimate Academy Awards Trivia Book, says. Gradually, we learn about his past as a gunman. "Photos in 5 Minutes: 39 Bogdanovich". They’re from different classes and backgrounds but struggle terribly to readjust to civilian life. The best MGM musicals showed extraordinary artistry. Some accuse the film of being pious and self-righteous but it deals frankly and very movingly with both the soldiers’ problems and those of their families and friends in understanding them. [14] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Tatum O'Neal was "just plain marvelous and Paper Moon is a tough, funny, beautifully calculated diversion". "[6] Bogdanovich added the scene in which Addie has her picture taken in a paper moon solely so the studio would allow him to use the title. While staying at another hotel in a rural area, Moze uncovers a bootlegger's store full of whiskey, steals some of it, and sells it back to the bootlegger. 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McCambridge initially didn’t receive credit for her work and criticised director William Friedkin in the press. “In the press, he played the doting father,” she wrote in A Paper Life, her 2004 memoir. O’Neal portrayed a con man temporarily saddled with a nine-year-old (played by his real-life daughter Tatum O’Neal) who may or may not be his actual daughter but who … The year is 1936. Learn more about O’Neal… One night, Addie and "Moze" (as Addie addresses him) stop at a local carnival, where Moze becomes enthralled with an "exotic dancer" named Miss Trixie Delight and leaves Addie at a photo booth to have her photograph taken alone (of herself sitting on a crescent moon, to suggest the film's title). The script by Julius and Philip G Epstein provided lines of dialogue about gin joints, rounding up the usual suspects and playing “As Time Goes By” that are still quoted today. Addie overhears this conversation and, after Moses spends nearly half the money fixing his old Model A convertible and buying her a train ticket, she demands the money as rightfully hers, whereupon Moses agrees to let Addie travel with him until he has raised back the full $200 to give to her. Addie joins the scam, pretending she is his daughter, and exhibits a talent for confidence tricks, cheating a cotton candy vendor out of a large sum of money. :mad: :eek: What the hell were they thinking ?? Director Peter Bogdanovich had cast the girl, an acting novice, opposite her father, Ryan O’Neal, with whom he worked on 1972 farce What’s Up, Doc? Humiliated and defeated, Moze drops Addie at the house of her aunt in St. Joseph, but a disappointed Addie rejoins him on the road. Terry, Clifford (January 7, 1973). Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. [8] Easy to dismiss as a jingoistic widescreen epic, David Lean’s film about TE Lawrence makes astonishing viewing seen in 70mm. "[13] Arthur D. Murphy in Variety called Tatum O'Neal "outstanding" and added, "Alvin Sargent's screenplay is a major contributor to the overall excellent results". [15] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "may prove a keen disappointment if you go with high expectations. Addie soon becomes friends with Imogene and becomes jealous of Trixie. An honorary Academy Juvenile Award was presented sporadically to young stars beginning with 6-year-old Shirley Temple in 1935 and ending with 14-year-old Hayley Mills in 1961. The western was considered an anachronism and so was Clint Eastwood himself when Eastwood made his blood soaked masterpiece. In a 2020 episode of the Hollywood movie history podcast "You Must Remember This," the podcast's creator, Karina Longworth, reports that when the Oscar nominations for Paper Moon were announced, Tatum O'Neal was visiting her father, Ryan, on the London set of Barry Lyndon. Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront can be read as the director’s attempt at justifying his own craven behaviour, naming names in front of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, during the communist witch hunts. Welles responded: "That title is so good, you shouldn't even make the picture, you should just release the title! In Gorham, Kansas, circa 1936, itinerant con man Moses Pray meets nine-year-old Addie Loggins at her mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father. Seeking advice from his close friend and mentor Orson Welles, Bogdanovich listed Paper Moon as a possible alternative. Tatum O'Neal was born on November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Tatum Beatrice O'Neal.... Born: November 5, 1963 Photos. The location was also changed from the rural south of the novel–primarily Alabama—to midwestern Kansas and Missouri.[6]. The way the jokes are interwoven with the dialogue, how layered each character is, and how beautifully told this rich story is make it amazing. "'Paper Moon'—Real Star". Ryan O'Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth behind a convincing smile, and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line. This is one of the greatest. Tatum O'Neal - PAPER MOON / ペーパー・ムーン 1973 - YouTube To O’Neal, then 9 years old, starring in Paper Moon was a chance to be with her dad, skip school, and learn how to read well. Murphy, Arthur D. (April 18, 1973). Tatum O'Neal received widespread praise from critics for her performance as Addie, earning her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest competitive winner in the history of the Academy Awards. I have been a long time fan and have enjoyed collecting info over the years about the film. You wouldn’t think the two approaches would fit together, somehow, but, they do, and the movie comes off as more honest and affecting than if Bogdanovich had simply paid tribute to older styles". and was looking for another project when his ex-wife and frequent collaborator Polly Platt recommended filming Joe David Brown's script for the novel Addie Pray. "A Hollow 'Paper Moon'". Unfortunately the bootlegger's twin brother is the local sheriff, who has spotted them stealing and quickly arrests Addie and Moze. Tatum O’Neal, Oscar-Winning ‘Paper Moon’ Star: ‘I Have Been Sexually Assaulted More Than Once’ "I rarely have known safety and was always blamed for for the assaults." “Historically, Oscar voters have proven they will embrace young actresses but not young actors,” O’Neil, of goldderby.com, says, noting that 8-year-old Justin Henry (Kramer vs. Kramer) and 11-year-old Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) were nominated for Best Supporting Actor but didn’t win. I thought it spoilt an otherwise excellent film. They catch the truck and leave together. Her other notable movies included The Bad News Bears and Little Darlings. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? It won its best picture Oscar in the year in which It’s a Wonderful Life was also nominated. Ryan O'Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar® in her first film role. [5] Peter Bogdanovich had just completed What's Up, Doc? [9], Director of photography László Kovács used a red filter on the camera on Orson Welles' advice. The Paper Moon star, ... Tatum O'Neal/Instagram. In 1994, Anna Paquin, then 12, won Best Supporting Actress for The Piano, becoming the second-youngest Oscar winner. Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. See more ideas about paper moon, tatum o’neal, moon. However, when Huston left the project, the Newmans became dissociated from the film as well. But that achievement didn’t stop her from feeling abandoned by her parents, writes Bruce Fretts, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. Eastwood played Will Munny, first encountered as a farmer and family man. Only Billy Wilder could have made a romantic comedy based around infidelity, drudgery and office politics and turned it into a film as delightful as this. [11] Roger Ebert gave the film his top four-star rating and commented that "a genre movie about a con man and a little girl is teamed up with the real poverty and desperation of Kansas and Missouri, circa 1936. At the time, O’Neal said he hoped the new movie would bring him closer to his restless daughter, who was estranged from her mother, actress Joanna Moore. She had no idea how … PAPER MOON [1973 / 2015] [Masters of Cinema] [Blu-ray + DVD] Tatum O'Neal Makes A Sensational Screen Debut! Various shooting locations include the Midland Hotel at Wilson, Kansas; the railway depot at Gorham, Kansas; storefronts and buildings on Main Street in White Cloud, Kansas; Hays, Kansas; sites on both sides of the Missouri River; Rulo Bridge; and St. Joseph, Missouri. Champlin, Charles (June 13, 1973). As an adult, O’Neal has attracted attention for her marriage to and divorce from tennis star John McEnroe and her recovery from drug addiction as well as her sporadic acting roles (Rescue Me, God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness). It is also magnificently acted. “This was the first opportunity to try to channel her energy and mind into something constructive,” he told People in 1974. “And give her what she never had enough of – love.”. Moze promptly leaves Miss Trixie and Imogene behind, while Addie leaves Imogene enough money to pay for her own passage home. "Paper Moon". William Wyler’s film about three veterans coming home at the end of the war still has a huge emotional kick. Her role is something special in the well-established tradition of children on film. The bottle of soda pop drunk by Addie is from Nehi Soda, by a company founded as Chero-Cola in 1910, in 1925 renamed Nehi Corporation, which became Royal Crown Company, then Dr Pepper/Seven Up, then Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Paper Moon is a downright amazing, but it comes off in a subtle way. All would have been worthy winners in other years. And she had this irresistible charm, At the Academy Awards a few months later, Tatum O’Neal, wearing a mini-tuxedo inspired by the suits favoured by Bianca Jagger (who later said she had an affair with Ryan O’Neal in the early 1970s), received a huge ovation when she won the Oscar and said only, “All I really want to thank is my director, Peter Bogdanovich, and my father.” Her grandfather, Charles O’Neal, accompanied her onstage and added, “Her grandfather thanks you, her father thanks you and I know Tatum thanks you.”. Moze and Addie make it across the state line to Missouri, where Moze sets up another swindle, only to be caught again by the sheriff and his deputies; outside of their jurisdiction and unable to make an arrest, they beat Moze and rob him of his and Addie's savings. Bogdanovich, a fan of period films, and having two young daughters of his own, found himself drawn to the story, and selected it as his next film. These days, it sometimes seems heretical to admit to an admiration for Woody Allen but his best films stand up as well as ever. [7] The whiskey being sold by the bootlegger shown toward the end of the film is Three Feathers blended whiskey, a label introduced by Oldtyme Distilling Corp. in 1882 and still produced up to the 1980s. Marlon Brando gives arguably his greatest performance of all as Terry Molloy, the dockworker and pigeon fancier who could have been a contender in life and in the boxing ring if only his brother had stood by him when he needed him most. [12] Gene Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that Tatum O'Neal "is more than cute. “I've killed women and children. Joseph L Mankiewicz’s drama about a young actress on the make and the established star whose career she wants to usurp boasts some of the most caustic dialogue in any Hollywood best picture winner. RELATED: Tatum O’Neal Says She Was ‘Sexually Assaulted’ Multiple Times as a Child Actress. They convince a clerk at the hotel where the group is staying to visit Trixie. [6], At the suggestion of Polly Platt, Bogdanovich approached eight-year-old Tatum O'Neal to audition for the role although she had no acting experience. Tatum O'Neal is an American actress and author best known for winning competitive Academy Awards at the age of 10 for the movie, Paper Moon. While selecting music for the film, he heard the song "It's Only a Paper Moon" (by Billy Rose, Yip Harburg, and Harold Arlen). "He was the first love of my life. At the time, O’Neal updated fans of … Her competition included another devilish young star: Linda Blair, the 15-year-old who had played the possessed Regan in The Exorcist. Ryan O'Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar® in her first film role. Tatum O'Neal and Ryan O'Neal on screen in Paper Moon. [6], Various changes were made in adapting the book to film. 1 Copy "Tatum O'Neal: A Paper Life" By Tatum O'Neal. Tatum O’Neal gives genuinely my favorite child performance ever. Ryan O’Neill and Joanna Moore, circa 1965, Tatum O’Neal has attempted to reconcile with her father, Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events, The actress became the youngest competitive Academy Award winner in history when she picked up a gong at the age of 10. Everything here, from Gordon Willis’s cinematography to the parallel stories of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone as the crime family boss in the late Fifties and Robert De Niro as his father Vito many years before, works near perfectly. But when Tatum O’Neal was nominated for an Oscar and her father wasn’t, it created tension. "Bogdanovich's 'Paper Moon' at Coronet". While watching the Ryan O'Neal / Tatum O'Neal film "Paper Moon" (1973), I was appalled to see quite a few scenes with 9 YEAR OLD Tatum O'Neal smoking. The rival Best Picture nominees in 1974 included Lenny, Chinatown and The Conversation (also directed by Francis Ford Coppola). Tatum O’Neal made history at merely age ten when she won the Academy Award for Paper Moon, a period piece set in the United States during the Great Depression.She co-starred alongside her famous father, Ryan O’Neal, and was the youngest person to win an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1974. Welcome to this fan website about "Paper Moon". He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri. As time passes, Moses and Addie become a formidable team. A Charming Mixture of Hawksian Comedy and Fordian Lyricism! To elude pursuit, they trade their new car for a decrepit Model T farm truck after Moze beats a hillbilly, Leroy, in a "rasslin' match". Tatum had that secret weapon you need in supporting races, which is a lead role. Other articles where Paper Moon is discussed: Peter Bogdanovich: Films: Bogdanovich’s success continued with Paper Moon (1973), a comedy filmed in the black-and-white appropriate to the 1936 setting. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie. 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Her classification as a supporting actress confused some people, including Bogdanovich, who said of another Paper Moon co-star nominated in the same category, “I don’t know how Madeline Kahn, who’s on screen for maybe 18 minutes, can be up against Tatum, who’s in 100 of the 103 minutes of the film.”, As Tom O’Neil, founder and editor of the awards-themed goldderby.com, says: “Tatum had that secret weapon you need in supporting races, which is a lead role. It also offers a probing and subtle portrayal of Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), the masochist who is both the quintessential English hero and the quintessential English outsider. It was not a ratings success and the series was canceled in January 1975. Ryan O'Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth behind a convincing smile, and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line.