Polly Platt

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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 , set designer and screenwriter .

Life

Polly Platt was born in 1939 as the daughter of the Dutch Colonel John Platt and the American advertising manager Vivian Abigail Marr. The couple also had one son, Jack. When Platt was six years old, the family moved to Germany because their father was a judge at the Dachau trials . During a visit to the theater at the age of ten, Platt developed an interest in her future career as a production designer . She later completed an art degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh .

In 1960, Platt married Philip Klein, who died eight months later in a car accident. She started working as a costume designer in New York City , where she met her second husband, Peter Bogdanovich . They married in 1962 and had two daughters, Antonia (* around 1967) and Alexandra (* 1970). They worked together on several films such as The Last Show and Paper Moon , with Platt being run as the production designer but having a significant role in directing. While filming The Final Performance , Bogdanovich began an affair with actress Cybill Shepherd . In 1971, Platt and Bogdanovich divorced, but their professional collaboration outlasted the separation by two years.

After the completion of Paper Moon (1973), Platt and Bogdanovich parted ways. For Platt it initially meant a change to work with a director with whom she had a less trusting relationship. So she left the production team of the crime comedy Dowry Hunters in 1975 because of creative differences with Mike Nichols . This was followed by successful work as a production designer for films like Die Bären sind los and also as a screenwriter, e.g. B. for Pretty Baby . In 1984 , Platt was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Production Design for the drama Zeit der Tärtlichkeit .

In 1985, Platt became Executive Vice President of Gracie Films , producing films like Teen Lover and Are You Going to Hollywood? produced. She also made a brief appearance in Teen Lover . The screenplay for Pursued Innocent earned Platt a 1999 Satellite Awards nomination .

Platt was the first female art director in the Art Directors Guild, founded in 1937, and one of the few women to work behind the camera in the 1970s. She commented on her varied career as a production designer, producer and screenwriter with “I call myself a confused careerist”.

Polly Platt died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in her Brooklyn apartment at the age of 72 . Her third husband, Tony Wade, had died in 1985.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ryan Gilbey: Polly Platt obituary , The Guardian , August 7, 2011, accessed January 12, 2013.
  2. ^ Golden Satellite Awards 1999 , altiusdirectory.com, accessed January 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rebecca Keegan: Polly Platt dies at 72; Oscar-nominated art director , Los Angeles Times , July 28, 2011, accessed January 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Platt, Polly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Platt, Mary Marr (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, costume designer, production designer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Sheridan , Lake County , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2011
Place of death Brooklyn