Sneak Peek: Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 1

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Excited for the new season? We can hardly wait to share the untold story of Polly Platt, the secret weapon behind some of the most highly acclaimed films of the 1970s, '80s and '90s. This audio journey will feature interviews and intimate details about her trailblazing legacy and heartbreaking private life, including excerpts from her own unpublished memoirs dealing with her creative collaborations and relationship with her second husband, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. The new season premieres May 26. For now, please enjoy a taste of what's to come in this extended preview of episode 1. Actress Maggie Siff is featured as the voice of Polly Platt. 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
0:29.2	the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:39.2	I'm your host, Karina Longworth. What you're about to hear is a preview of the new season of You
0:48.8	Must Remember This. This is the first 15 minutes or so of the first episode of the new season,
0:56.5	which will be dropping in full next week. The season will run 10 episodes with a new episode
1:03.1	dropping every Tuesday through the end of July. This preview will introduce you to this season's
1:09.8	thrilling story of one woman's journey through the ringer of 60s and 70s Hollywood, her emergence
1:17.2	in the 80s and 90s as the right-hand person to one of the era's most powerful writer-director producers,
1:24.6	and her struggle to assert herself as an artist in an industry that has never been kind to female
1:32.2	iconoclasts. Come back next week for the full season premiere in which we'll start telling this
1:40.8	fascinating story. Over the course of the past six years, we've told stories spanning the whole
1:51.6	of the 20th century from the first stars of the silent era, all the way through the classical
1:58.7	Hollywood era, the new Hollywood, and into the 80s and 90s. Today, we begin a new season which
2:07.9	will encompass most of those eras, but we will begin in the early 21st century.
2:15.1	On August 12, 2011, the Hollywood reporter ran a several-page spread memorializing polyplate,
2:30.9	who had died of ALS at the age of 72 about two weeks earlier. This expanded remembrance included
2:40.4	quotes from stars such as Jeff Bridges, William Hurt, and Danny DeVito, Oscar-winning writer-directors
2:47.7	Cameron Crowe and James L. Brooks, as well as Polly's ex-husband, Peter Bagnonovich.
2:55.9	It was a remarkable and remarkably large tribute from one of the industry's key trade papers.
3:03.1	To a woman who was probably best known as the odd woman out, in a love triangle between
3:09.3	Bagnonovich and Cibbl Shepard, the ongenew of Bagnonovich's breakthrough film, the last picture show.
3:18.0	Professionally, Polly Platt was most recognized while she was alive as a production designer.
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