Polly Platt, the production designer on Paper Moon, is Peter Bogdanovich's ex-wife.

At 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)-

The versatile comedy actress, Madeline Kahn, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paper Moon. 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). Sadly, Kahn died of cancer in 1999. Her final screen appearance was in Judy Berlin (1999), a critically acclaimed independent film by Eric Mendelsohn in which she played a mentally unstable housewife.

Keep a sharp lookout for a young Randy Quaid in the role of Leroy, a rural hick who challenges Ryan O'Neal to a wrestling match near the end of the picture. Quaid, brother of Dennis, was discovered by director Peter Bogdanovich while he was still a drama student. He made his screen debut in the director's 1971 masterpiece, The Last Picture Show. The same year he appeared in Paper Moon, Quaid was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in The Last Detail (1973). His most recent film is Not Another Teen Movie (2001), a satire on the entire high school movie genre.

FAMOUS QUOTES FROM PAPER MOON

Trixie Delight: I just don't understand it, Daddy. This little baby has to winky-tinky all the time.

Trixie Delight: One of these days you're gonna be just as pretty as Mademoiselle, maybe prettier. You already got bone structure. When I was your age, I didn't have no bone structure. Took me years to get bone structure. And don't think bone structure's not important. Nobody started to call me Mademoiselle until I was seventeen and getting a little bone structure."

Moses Pray: Just because a woman meets a man in a barroom doesn't mean he's your pa. Addie: Well, then, if you ain't my pa, I want my $200.

Trixie Delight: Times are hard...Now, if you fool around on the hill up here, then you don't get nothin', I don't get nothin', he don't get nothin'. So, how about it, honey? Just for a little while. Let old Trixie sit up front with her big tits.

Compiled by Scott McGee