Orson Welles, What’s Up Doc, Paper Moon (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 4)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In the aftermath of The Last Picture Show — and the collapse of her second marriage — Polly finds an unlikely ally, and a new job, in Orson Welles. Anxious to build on her career momentum (and become the first female film art director accepted into her union), Polly agrees to work on Peter’s next two films, What’s Up Doc and Paper Moon – two massive hits which make Peter one of the most famous directors of the decade. 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	Silence
0:10.2	Music
0:18.0	Good man.
0:26.2	To you must remember this, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten
0:35.1	histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:39.2	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:42.6	This is another episode of our ongoing series, Poly Plat, The Invisible Woman.
0:52.1	Last week we discussed the production of the last picture show, during which director
0:57.1	Peter Bagnonovich fell in love with actress Sibel Schepard.
1:02.5	Much to the dismay of Peter's wife and production designer, Poly Plat.
1:08.7	After Peter finished editing the last picture show, he started calling Poly all the time
1:14.5	to share with her his excitement over the buzz that was building for the film.
1:19.8	The last picture show was the talk to Jor around what was called the Bel Air Circuit,
1:26.4	meaning the Hollywood power brokers who all watched movies in their private screening
1:31.5	rooms in their Bel Air mansions.
1:35.9	Against her better judgment, Poly allowed herself to believe that the fact that Peter was
1:40.7	calling her to process all of this meant that there was hope for rebuilding their marriage.
1:48.4	That Peter was living at the sunset tower hotel and would soon move into his own mansion
1:54.1	in Bel Air.
1:56.1	In both locations, his companion was Sibel Schepard.
2:04.8	Through the making of the last picture show, Poly had become friends with Ellen Burston,
2:10.3	who played Sibel's character's mother and romantic rival in the movie.
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