A screenplay was adapted from either a novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown.

A film is placed when you took a Great Depression in the U.S. state of Kansas & it starred the real life father and girl coupling of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on screen father and daughter Moses and Addie.

Around September 1974, the television series known as Paper Moon, according to a film, premiered on the ABC television network. A television version of Paper Moon starred Jodie Foster as Addie and Christopher Connelly as Moses Pray. Nonetheless, it was non a ratings profits & it went off the air two or three months fallowing it debuted, within January 1975.

Production

Peter Bogdanovich, coming of the huge successes of his films ''What's Up, Doc? and The Last Picture Show'', and having recently formed The Director's Company with Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, was looking for another project, when his ex-wife and frequent collaborator Polly Platt reccomended filming Joe David Brown's script for the novel Addie Pray. 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.

When a script went across various revision & a crew scouted locations, Bogdanovitch toiled above world health organization to cast when his leads--particularly, a role of the immature con-artist Addie. Over again at a suggetion of Polly Platt, he approached seven-year-old Tatum O'Neal, who had no acting experience, to audition for the role. Director Bogdanovich got recently worked by using Tatum's father Ryan O'Neal on ''What's Up, Doc?'', and had the idea of casting the father-daughter team in the leads.

Tatum recalls existence asked to review script places 1 afternoon for her father & his friend Peter, with there is no idea what them think of for her. Ryan O'Neal, who, at the time, was one of the biggest stars in the world, would soon find himself intimidated by his daughter's natural screen presence. She got won a role.

Various changes were mass produced inside adapting a book to film. Addie's age was reduced from either either twelve to nine to accommodate immature Tatum, many cases from the book were combined for pacing issues, & a go third of the novel was drop by leu of a other fitting ending for the tone of the film. A location was as well changed from either a rural south to midwestern Kansas and Missouri.

A title of the novel, Addie Pray, besides posed an issue. Peter Bogdanovitch discovered the title out or keeping for a film, & began looking for more conceivable alternatives. Patch selecing music for the film, he encounter the song known as ''It's Lone the Paper Moon, & encountered himself enthralled by using a words. Shopping for advice from either his close friend & wise man Orson Welles, Bogdanovitch listed Paper Moon'' as a possible choice. Welles' response has turn into legendary--"That title is so good, you shouldn't even make the picture, you should just release the title!"

Across various hardships & scrapes throughout a film a crew managed to stick together. Mayhap virtually all notably, a acting skills of the immature Tatum come telling. Director Bogdanovich, the fan of deep focus motion-picture photography & extended will require, drove his cast, especiallly immature Tatum, to freshly levels of skill. Within of these remarkable scene, a camera follows Moses & Addie for many minutes forswearing cutting away, when them exchange heated dialogue & perform various pysical interactions using props. the concentration them display is remarkable, especially for Tatum, world health organization was exclusively eight at a instance, & by having her number 1 own experience with acting, though these are worth noting that for the 5 microscopic shot, thirty-six requires were involved on top a ii day time.

O'Neal went in to win a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the immature winner around the competitory category. Co-star Madeline Kahn was nominated in the same category. Coincidentally, & peradventure virtually all tellingly, her role is the virtually all material film role ever nominated within the supporting category. Several guess that though she appears in screen 100% of the film's heading instance, because of the fact that she was merely x years aged at the period of her nomination, academy elector would non nominate the little one within a leading category. Her performance can use too individual-single-handed ended a debate when to whether or even does'nt kids should exist as nominated for competitory Academy Awards, a academy getting discontinued the Academy Juvenile Award in 1960. Since O'Neal's win, more toddler actors, like Jodie Foster and Haley Joel Osment have gone in to earn nominations, using a bit of, rather Anna Paquin, even winning a award.

Cast
Ryan O'Neal .... Moses Pray Tatum O'Neal .... Addie Loggins Madeline Kahn .... Trixie Delight John Hillerman .... Deputy Hardin/Jess Hardin P.J. Johnson .... Imogene Jessie Lee Fulton .... Miss Ollie James North. Harrell .... A Minister (when Jim Harrell) Lila Waters .... A Minister's Wife Noble Willingham .... Mr. Robertson Bob Young .... Barking spiders Station Attendant Jack Saunders .... Station Master Jody Wilbur .... Coffee shop Waitress Liz Ross .... A Widow woman Morgan (Pearl) Yvonne Harrison .... A Widow woman Bates (Marie) Dorothy Price .... Ribbon Saleslady