Tag Archives: Peter Bogdanovich

Searching for Polly in the Bogdanovich Papers: Reflections

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Aaron

In July of this summer I spent two weeks at the Peter Bogdanovich collection at the Lilly Library at Indiana University. I went searching for material – particularly production-related material – on Polly Platt, who was married to Bogdanovich for … Continue reading →

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Searching for Polly in the Bogdanovich Archives: Week One

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Aaron

I’ve reached the halfway point of a two-week stint at the Peter Bogdanovich archives at Indiana University in Bloomington. I’m going to save the “big conclusions” for after the trip is complete because I still have a lot of material … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Director:
Polly Platt and Orson Welles’s Last Movie

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Aaron

Recent film and media news has been filled with excitement at the announcement that Netflix has acquired the rights to Orson Welles’s final, unfinished film project, The Other Side of the Wind. And rightly so! Wind was a labor of … Continue reading →

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