Trivia

In the 1970's, her second husband director Peter Bogdanovich divorced her to be with starlet Cybill Shepherd. In the film Irreconcilable Differences (1984), a director (Ryan O'Neal) divorced his wife (Shelley Long) for a starlet (Sharon Stone). When Platt was asked about whether Irreconcilable Differences (1984) was inspired by her real life situation, her answer was: "They got more right than wrong".

Her father was a judge at the Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany.

She helped to create the plot for Peter Bogdanovich's movie Targets (1968). She also suggested to her husband that he should make Larry McMurtry's novel "The Last Picture Show" into a film.

Her very first sexual experience, at what's now known as Carnegie Mellon University, got her pregnant. She dropped out of school for a while and gave birth to a girl, whom she gave up for adoption, with no regrets.

Her father John was an army colonel and her mother Vivian worked in advertising. At age 6, she moved to Germany where her father presided over the post-World War II Dachau Nazi war-crimes trials.

Was the first female member of the Art Directors Guild.

Continued to collaborate on movie projects with her director husband Peter Bogdanovich, even after he divorced her for actress Cybill Shepherd in 1971.

She was executive vice president of James L. Brooks' production company, "Gracie Films," from 1985 to 1995.

She is survived by her brother, Jack Platt; 2 daughters, Antonia Bogdanovich and Alexandra "Sashy" Bogdanovichl a stepdaughter, Kelly Wade; a stepson, Jon Wade; 3 grandchildren; and 4 step-grandchildren.

While writing the film that became Pretty Baby (1978), a biographical account of professional photographer E. J. Bellocq in mid-1910s New Orleans, she originally envisioned Jane Fonda as Hattie, Jodie Foster as Violet, and Robert Redford as the photographer.

Polly studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh before beginning her career as a costume designer for the stage.

She studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began her career as a costume designer for theater.

Mother of Antonia Bogdanovich and Sashy Bogdanovich.