Paper Moon premiered

May 9, 1973
Paramount Pictures comedy Paper Moon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal. Madeline Kahn, and John Hillerman, opened on this date.

Orson Welles, a close friend of director Peter Bogdanovich, did some uncredited consulting on the cinematography. It was Welles who suggested shooting black and white photography through a red filter, thus adding higher contrast to the images.



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