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- Birth nameMary Marr Platt
- Polly Platt was born on January 29, 1939 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA. She was a producer and production designer, known for Say Anything (1989), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Broadcast News (1987). She was married to Tony Wade, Peter Bogdanovich and Phillip Klein. She died on July 27, 2011 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesTony Wade(January 29, 1980 - December 21, 1984) (divorced)Peter Bogdanovich(June 1962 - June 1972) (divorced, 2 children)Phillip Klein(May 1960 - December 4, 1960) (his death)
- 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.
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