Filmmaker. Pola Miller, an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian who served on the boards of Women in Film and the American Film Institute Associates, died Feb. 8, 2015 in Los Angeles. She was 86.
Miller was born Pola Chasman in 1928 in New York City. Both her parents taught English at the University of Maine — her father as a professor — and they later ran a school for continuing education in New York.
After graduating from Emerson College in 1950, Miller moved back to New York and became a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as The New York Times and Village Voice. She also hosted The Spoken Word, a radio show about poets and poetry that aired on classical music station WQXR.
In 1955, she married television director Robert Ellis Miller, whom she had met as a student when she auditioned for his production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, staged while he was president of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. He survives her.
Miller was born Pola Chasman in 1928 in New York City. Both her parents taught English at the University of Maine — her father as a professor — and they later ran a school for continuing education in New York.
After graduating from Emerson College in 1950, Miller moved back to New York and became a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as The New York Times and Village Voice. She also hosted The Spoken Word, a radio show about poets and poetry that aired on classical music station WQXR.
In 1955, she married television director Robert Ellis Miller, whom she had met as a student when she auditioned for his production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, staged while he was president of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. He survives her.
Filmmaker. Pola Miller, an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian who served on the boards of Women in Film and the American Film Institute Associates, died Feb. 8, 2015 in Los Angeles. She was 86.
Miller was born Pola Chasman in 1928 in New York City. Both her parents taught English at the University of Maine — her father as a professor — and they later ran a school for continuing education in New York.
After graduating from Emerson College in 1950, Miller moved back to New York and became a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as The New York Times and Village Voice. She also hosted The Spoken Word, a radio show about poets and poetry that aired on classical music station WQXR.
In 1955, she married television director Robert Ellis Miller, whom she had met as a student when she auditioned for his production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, staged while he was president of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. He survives her.
Miller was born Pola Chasman in 1928 in New York City. Both her parents taught English at the University of Maine — her father as a professor — and they later ran a school for continuing education in New York.
After graduating from Emerson College in 1950, Miller moved back to New York and became a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as The New York Times and Village Voice. She also hosted The Spoken Word, a radio show about poets and poetry that aired on classical music station WQXR.
In 1955, she married television director Robert Ellis Miller, whom she had met as a student when she auditioned for his production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, staged while he was president of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. He survives her.
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