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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 14, 1930
Place of Birth:
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Polly Bergen
Biography
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001. Her film work included Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She hosted her own weekly variety show for one season (The Polly Bergen Show), was a regular panelist on the TV game show To Tell The Truth and later in life had recurring roles in The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives. She wrote three books on beauty, fashion and charm. She is also the inspiration behind Mother Goose in The Land of Stories.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Actress |
| 2013 | Struck by Lightning | Grandma |
| 2006 | A Very Serious Person | Mrs. A |
| 2006 | Candles on Bay Street | Rosemary |
| 1998 | Doris Day: It's Magic | Self |
| 1996 | In the Blink of an Eye | Murial |
| 1996 | Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored | Miss Maybry |
| 1996 | For Hope | Molly Altman |
| 1995 | The Surrogate | Sandy Gilman |
| 1995 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde | |
| 1994 | Leave of Absence | Janet |
| 1993 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal | Barbara Fox |
| 1991 | The Lightning Incident | Carol |
| 1991 | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self |
| 1990 | Cry-Baby | Mrs. Vernon-Williams |
| 1989 | The Haunting of Sarah Hardy | Emily Thetford |
| 1989 | My Brother's Wife | Myra Gilbert |
| 1989 | Mother, Mother | Barbara Cutler |
| 1988 | Addicted to His Love | Vivien Langford |
| 1988 | She Was Marked for Murder | Laura Lee Webster |
| 1987 | Making Mr. Right | Estelle Stone |
| 1984 | Velvet | Mrs. Vance |
| 1982 | Born Beautiful | Marion Carmody |
| 1981 | The Million Dollar Face | Jo Burns |
| 1978 | How to Pick Up Girls! | Dana Greenberg |
| 1977 | Telethon | Dorothy Goodwin |
| 1975 | Murder on Flight 502 | Mona Briarly |
| 1974 | Death Cruise | Sylvia Carter |
| 1973 | An Echo of Theresa | Suzy Hunter |
| 1967 | A Guide for the Married Man | Technical Adviser (Clara Brown) |
| 1964 | Kisses for My President | Leslie McCloud |
| 1963 | Move Over, Darling | Bianca Steele |
| 1963 | The Caretakers | Lorna Melford |
| 1962 | Cape Fear | Peggy Bowden |
| 1962 | Belle Sommers | Belle Sommers |
| 1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Helen Morgan |
| 1953 | Cry of the Hunted | Janet Tunner |
| 1953 | Escape from Fort Bravo | Alice Owens |
| 1953 | Arena | Ruth Danvers |
| 1953 | Fast Company | Carol Maldon |
| 1951 | That's My Boy | Betty 'Babs' Hunter |
| 1951 | The Stooge | Mary Turner |
| 1951 | Warpath | Molly Quade |
| 1950 | At War with the Army | Helen Palmer |
| 1950 | The Men | Nightclub Singer (Uncredited) |
| 1949 | Across The Rio Grande | Polly Burgin |
| 1949 | Champion | Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited) |