Ryan O'Neal to star in a movie for Stanley Kubrick, "Barry Lyndon". While that film was in pre production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in "The Thief Who Came to Dinner" (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for "Paper Moon" (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in a very popular movie and in 1973, Ryan O'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second most popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood. O'Neal spent over a year making "Barry Lyndon" (1975) for Kubrick. The
Barry Lyndon the spas and parlors of Europe, profiting from their gambling with Barry forcing payment from reluctant debtors with sword duels. Seeing that his life is going nowhere, Barry decides to marry into wealth. At a gambling table in Spa, he encounters the beautiful and wealthy Countess of Lyndon. He seduces and later marries her after the death of her elderly husband, Sir Charles Lyndon. Because Lyndon is frail, sickly, and old, Barry's goading and verbal repartee ultimately send him into a fit of convulsions that ends with his death. Barry's coup-de-grace is the assertion that "he who laughs last, wins".