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Friday, 29 July 2011

Hollywood producer Polly Platt dies at 72

05:39  Muhammad Shahbaz Khan  No comments

Hollywood producer Polly Platt, who was nominated for an Oscar for art direction, for Terms of Endearment, has died aged 72 in New York.
Platt, who was formerly married to film director Peter Bogdanovich, produced a string of successful movies including Broadcast News and War of the Roses.
Her daughter, Sashy Bogdanovich, said Platt died on Wednesday of a form of motor neurone disease.
Platt leaves two daughters and three grandsons.
Born in Illinois, she studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, before she began her career as a costume designer for the stage.
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She worked with husband Bogdanovich, as a set designer, on films including The Last Picture Show, but they separated following his affair with the film's star Cybill Shepherd.
After the divorced in 1971, however, they maintained a working relationship on hit films such as What's Up Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand, and Paper Moon.
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