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Mary Marr "Polly" Platt (January 29, 1939 – July 27, 2011) was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter. Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly. Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in advertising; she has a brother, John. She moved to Germany at the age of six as her father presided over the Dachau Trials. Platt later returned to the US and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Platt worked in summer stock theatre as a costume designer in New York and... MORE

Mary Marr "Polly" Platt (January 29, 1939 – July 27, 2011) was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter. Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly. Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in advertising; she has a brother, John. She moved to Germany at the age of six as her father presided over the Dachau Trials. Platt later returned to the US and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Platt worked in summer stock theatre as a costume designer in New York and there met Peter Bogdanovich, whom she would later marry. She co-wrote with Bogdanovich his first movie Targets (1968), conceiving the plot outline of a "Vietnam veteran-turned-sniper" and served as the production designer on the film. She was also production designer on his film The Last Picture Show (1971), recommending Cybill Sheppard for her first film role, and despite the breakdown of their marriage, had the same role on What's Up Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). Platt had suggested Bogdanovich make Larry McMurtry's novel The Last Picture Show into a film. Bogdanovich commented that: "She LESS