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Joe David Brown's 1971 novel "Addie Pray" — about an orphaned girl who meets her possible father Moses, with the two becoming thick as thieves as they run scams across the country in the 1930s — once had Paul Newman and his daughter Nell Potts attached to star, in a movie intended to be directed by John Huston.

Instead, it became Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 masterpiece "Paper Moon" (Orson Welles told the director, "That title is so good, you don't even need to make the picture.

Just release the title!"), with Ryan O'Neal and his own daughter, Tatum in the leads. Her acting inexperience had Bogdanovich "hat[ing] shooting this movie so much," but the end result had him saying, "Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture." Tatum went on to win the film's only Academy Award — becoming, at 10, the youngest to win a competitive Oscar ever.

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