Last Picture Show Love Triangle (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 3)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At Polly’s urging, Peter decides to direct an adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel The Last Picture Show. Though credited only as the film’s “designer,” Polly is involved in every creative decision, including casting — and it’s with his pregnant-again wife’s enthusiasm that Bogdanovich casts 20-year-old model Cybill Shepherd as the film’s femme fatale. Though Polly believed she and Peter were “deliriously happy,” Bogdanovich and Shepherd fall in love on the set of the movie, and Polly has to make a decision: to save face and avoid personal humiliation by walking away from the production, or stay and fight for the creative baby that she feels ownership over. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated
0:29.9	to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:36.9	I'm your host, Karina Longworth. This is another episode of our ongoing series,
0:44.9	Polyplat, The Invisible Woman.
0:49.9	When last we left Polyplat, she and her husband Peter Bagnonovich had just
0:56.9	collaborated on his feature directorial debut, Targets, which Poly had hoped would lead
1:03.9	to a chance to direct a bigger and better feature. It did, and it was on the set of that
1:10.9	next feature that, in some sense, Poly's world fell apart. Her husband began the affair
1:17.9	that would ultimately lead to the end of their marriage. But even while working
1:22.9	through incredible emotional chaos and trauma, and working intimately with the young
1:27.9	woman whose relationship with Poly's husband became an open secret. That movie also
1:34.9	gave Poly a chance to showcase her own talents, and to define the aesthetic of one
1:40.9	of the most iconic looking movies of the 1970s. In the moment for Polyplat, the last
1:47.9	picture show felt like the end. But as we'll see over the course of this series,
1:53.9	in terms of her career, it was also a beginning.
1:58.9	Today we will discuss how the last picture show came to be. The role Polyplade in
2:05.9	crafting its look and feel, and the incredible story of the love triangle that took
2:10.9	place just barely off camera, which informed the movie, set into motion one of the
2:16.9	defining celebrity narratives of the era, and left one woman, Polyplat, bereft,
2:23.9	and totally unsure of her life and career. Join us, won't you? For part three of Polyplat,
2:33.9	the invisible woman.
2:36.9	In 1969, Peter, Poly, and their nearly two-year-old daughter Antonia, decamped for Rome.
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