Ryan O’Neal
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association with Bogdanovich
- In Peter Bogdanovich: Films
…Up Baby (1938), it starred Ryan O’Neal as a musicology professor who lugs around a suitcase full of prehistoric rocks and Barbra Streisand as the madcap woman who falls in love with him. It probably was as close to a re-creation of the classic screwball comedies as anyone had produced…
Read More - In Tatum O’Neal
director Peter Bogdanovich approached her father and her with a proposal for them to costar in a movie based on the novel Addie Pray (1971) by Joe David Brown, although Tatum had never before acted. Her grave performance as a shrewd cigarette-smoking nine-year-old who teams up with a bogus…
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“Barry Lyndon”
- In Stanley Kubrick: Films of the 1970s of Stanley Kubrick
Ryan O’Neal starred as the title character, an 18th-century Irish rogue who narrates his story in voice-over. Kubrick’s obsessive insistence on filming with natural lighting of the period (including scenes illuminated only by candles) necessitated the construction of a special camera. He was equally meticulous…
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“Fever Pitch”
- In Richard Brooks: Later work
…was Fever Pitch (1985), starring Ryan O’Neal as a gambling addict. The drama was a commercial and critical failure, and Brooks subsequently retired.
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relationship with Fawcett
- In Farrah Fawcett
…her longtime relationship with actor Ryan O’Neal, with whom she had a son, Redmond.
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