Polly Platt
Polly Platt, born as Mary Marr Platt ( born January 29, 1939 in Fort Sheridan, Lake County, Illinois, † July 27, 2011 in Brooklyn ), was an American film producer, costume designer, production designer and screenwriter.
Life and work
Polly Platt was born in 1939 as a subsidiary of the Dutch Colonel John Platt and the U.S. advertising manager Vivian Abigail Marr. The couple had a son, Jack. As Platt was six years old, the family moved to Germany because her father accepted a judgeship at the Dachau trials. In a theater with ten years Platt developed an interest in their future career as a production designer. Later she studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh.
1960 Platt married Philip Klein, who in a car accident died eight months later. They took up a position as a costume designer in New York City, where she learned to her second husband Peter Bogdanovich know. They married in 1962 and had two daughters, Antonia (c. 1967) and Alexandra (born 1970 ). They worked together on several films such as The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, where Platt was run as a production designer, but was a significant interest in directing. During the filming of The Last Picture Show Bogdanovich began an affair with actress Cybill Shepherd. In 1971, Platt and Bogdanovich divorced, but their professional collaboration survived the separation of two years.
After the completion of Paper Moon (1973 ), the paths of Platt and Bogdanovich parted. For Platt, it first meant a move to work with a director, to which she had a less trusting relationship. So she left in 1975 due to creative differences with the production team of Mike Nichols comedy thriller fortune hunter. This was followed by successful work as a production designer on such films as The Bad News Bears and also as a screenwriter, eg for Pretty Baby. 1984 Platt was nominated with the drama Terms of Endearment for an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction.
1985 Platt Executive Vice President at production company Gracie Films, for which they movies like Say Anything and I'll Do to Hollywood? produced. In Say Anything she also had a brief appearance as an actress. Followed the screenplay for Innocent brought Platt 1999, a nomination at the Satellite Awards a.
Platt was the first female art director in 1937, founded the American artist union Art Director 's Guild and one of the few women who worked in the 1970s behind the camera. Your varied career as a production designer, producer and screenwriter she commented with "I call myself a confused careerist ".
Polly Platt died at the age of 72 years of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in her apartment in Brooklyn. Her third husband, Tony Wade was passed in 1985.