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Aug 2, 2011 · Polly Platt earned plaudits from Hollywood for her artistry, vision, love of movies, influence on great directors and knowledge of film history. She was the first woman admitted to the Art ...
Jul 27, 2011 · Polly Platt, an Oscar-nominated production designer, producer and writer who teamed with then-husband Peter Bogdanovich on such period films as Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show, died Wednesday ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Polly Platt (left) with Truman Capote, Mrs. John Kilgore and Louis Girard. Photo: Blair Pittman / Houston Chronicle Platt’s contributions to the films she worked on with Bogdanovich were widely acknowledged by the production teams on these projects, and yet she was seen by the men doing the hiring as a “wife of” and not an artist in her ...
Speaker It’s Polly, come on over, you know, and this is the way he focused, you know, he would take that one good eye and he would put his hand in front of it and he would look, you know, and I ...
May 26, 2020 · Polly Platt in 1972 . I ntroducing a new season of her popular podcast You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth points out that, even among cinephiles, Polly Platt is primarily known as the wife Peter Bogdanovich left for Cybill Shepherd during the making of The Last Picture Show (1971). Starting today, and with new episodes appearing each ...
Jul 28, 2020 · WOMEN OF THE 80’S (POLLY PLATT, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, EPISODE 8): In the mid-to-late 80s, Polly Platt worked on a number of films that defined and reflected that decade’s ideas about female power. With an Oscar nomination under her belt, Polly starts trying in earnest to direct. She ends her career as a production designer with The Witches ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Polly Platt, production designer, screenwriter, producer, and key collaborator to auteurs such as James L. Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich, doesn’t get the credit she deserves as a creative genius ...
