Polly Platt

...ex-wife and production designer Polly Platt) that his films became hermetic little worlds. (Years later, Platt served as a producer on Bottle Rocket.) 3. Harold And Maude (1971) Cat Stevens' "The Wind" pops up in Rushmore as another...

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...directed O'Neal in three films, and Differences is a fictionalized take on the marriage and divorce of Bogdanovich and ex-wife/collaborator Polly Platt. Though it was marketed as a comedy about a doe-eyed moppet (Drew Barrymore) divorcing...

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...Garrett and Billy the Kid instead. Peter Bogdanovich's ex-wife Polly Platt, a film editor, had read Hill's script for Hickey & Boggs and recommended him to co-write The Getaway with Bogdanovich. They worked on the script together in San...

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...from the early 1960s until the early 1970s. She helped him write his first movie Targets (1968), and did set design on that film, along with The Last Picture Show (1971) and Paper Moon '' (1973). They divorced after Bogdanovich left her...

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...film as well. Peter Bogdanovich had just completed What's Up Doc? and was looking for another project when his ex-wife and frequent collaborator Polly Platt recommended filming Joe David Brown's script for the novel Addie Pray. Bogdanovich, a...

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...director and his screenwriter wife. The story was based on the real-life experience of director Peter Bogdanovich, his set designer wife Polly Platt and Cybill Shepherd, who as a young actress had starred in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture...

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...was, "I don't know how you make it into a picture, but it's a good book." Bogdanovich, McMurtry and some sources suggest an uncredited Polly Platt went through the book and wrote a script which tells the story in linear fashion, always...

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