Pretty Baby and a Playmate Murder (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 6)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In an attempt to save her family, Polly transitions to screenwriting and producing, basing the prostitution drama Pretty Baby, starring a pre-teen Brooke Shields, on her own daughter. Polly finds herself increasingly overcome by alcoholism, while dealing with Shields’s own alcoholic mother. Polly’s already-difficult relationship with her two daughters is made much more complicated by the murder of Peter’s girlfriend, Dorothy Stratten, and Bogdanovich’s subsequent emotional collapse. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Father Jesus and a good Father
0:05.2	TO BE CONTINUED
0:08.0	Welcome to You must remember this the podcast dedicated to exploring the
0:32.5	secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:39.5	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series,
0:49.1	Poly Platt, The Invisible Woman.
0:55.8	When last we left Poly Platt, she had decided to try her hand at screenwriting.
1:02.3	After the rationale that it was a job she could do at home, in Los Angeles, where her kids
1:08.4	lived.
1:10.2	By the time bad news bears and a star is born were released, Poly's daughters Antonia and
1:16.2	Sasha were nine and six.
1:20.7	It broke Poly's heart to leave them to go to other cities to work, and Antonia, in
1:26.0	particular, really felt her mother's absence and was starting to show behavioral problems
1:32.9	because of it.
1:35.3	Poly decided to refocus her career, hoping that it would allow her to be home more, and
1:41.7	her relationships with her daughters would thus improve.
1:46.8	But it didn't exactly work out that way.
1:50.7	Her first film as a screenwriter, Pretty Baby, concerned a child living in a turn of the
1:57.3	century New Orleans brothel.
2:00.5	The shooting of this movie not only led Poly away from home, but dropped her into another
2:07.8	family's mother daughter dynamic that had its own complications.
2:13.9	Then, just as Poly's home life was stabilizing, a horrific murder sent her extended family
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Karina Longworth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Karina Longworth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.