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Paper Moon (film) Paper Moon. (film) Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of Julia and Ordinary People . Sargent died on May 9, 2019 in Seattle , Washington at the age of 92.
May 11, 2019 · Alvin Sargent — who passed away on May 9 at the age of 92 — began writing for television in the mid-1950s; was off to the races from his first produced feature script, 1966’s “Gambit ...
May 13, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, a Hollywood screenwriter who specialized in haunting explorations of characters' insecurities and imperfections, and who won Academy Awards for "Julia" and "Ordinary People" before enchanting a younger generation of viewers with his work on Sony's Spider-Man film franchise, died May 9 at his home in Seattle.
May 11, 2019 · The Oscar-winning screenwriter Alvin Sargent has passed away at from natural causes at his home in Seattle at the age of 92. The news came courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. It was at the twilight of his career that Sargent took to comic book movies.
May 11, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, the storied screenwriter best known for his Academy Award-winning script for “Ordinary People” and his Oscar-nominated “Paper Moon,” died Thursday of natural causes in ...
May 12, 2019 · Alvin Sargent cut his teeth 'til they were razor sharp writing for early 1960s television programs , like Naked City, Route 66, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He spent ten full years scribing for the small screen before making the leap to feature films with Gambit in 1966, a wry and witty caper flick of the first order starring Michael Caine
