Addie Pray
The 1974 ABC situation comedy Paper Moon, which aired from September 1974 to January 1975, was based on the 1973 movie and the characters created for Addie Pray.[1] The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphaned girl, who travels with confidence man Moses "Long Boy" Pray in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression.In the second part of the novel, from which the movie diverges further, Addie and Moses meet an older conman who teaches them class and sophistication.They then begin dropping fake letters, promising big yields in a silver mine, in order to draw in greedy victims.In the last third of the novel, Addie is more directly involved in a scam, posing as the long-lost granddaughter of a supposedly wealthy old woman.