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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Polly Bergen Biography / Wiki
| Name | Polly Bergen |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Date of Birth | 1930-07-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
| Deathday | 2014-09-20 |
Polly Bergen Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Telethon | Dorothy Goodwin | 1977-11-06 | The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas…. |
| An Echo of Theresa | Suzy Hunter | 1973-01-15 | American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as “T… |
| Death Cruise | Sylvia Carter | 1974-10-30 | Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered…. |
| The Caretakers | Lorna Melford | 1963-08-21 | This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital…. |
| Murder on Flight 502 | Mona Briarly | 1975-11-21 | On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands…. |
| Kisses for My President | U.S. President Leslie McCloud | 1964-08-21 | When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for he… |
| The Lightning Incident | Carol | 1991-09-12 | McKeon’s baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down…. |
| For Hope | Molly Altman | 1996-11-17 | The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped…. |
| Fast Company | Carol Maldon | 1953-05-21 | The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father’s stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer wh… |
| Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Herself | 1991-03-10 | A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films, and the actor himself…. |
| Belle Sommers | Belle Sommers | 1962-05-30 | A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate…. |
| Mother, Mother | Barbara Cutler | 1989-01-06 | A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and… |
| Move Over, Darling | Bianca Steele | 1963-12-19 | Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that … |
| Cape Fear | Peggy Bowden | 1962-04-12 | Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi… |
| Cry of the Hunted | Janet Tunner | 1953-05-08 | A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps…. |
| A Very Serious Person | Mrs. A | 2006-01-01 | Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old gran… |
| The Stooge | Mary Turner | 1952-12-21 | Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in t… |
| Arena | Ruth Danvers | 1953-06-24 | Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull…. |
| Candles on Bay Street | Rosemary | 2006-11-26 | DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is no… |
| Warpath | Molly Quade | 1951-11-22 | John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but … |
| The Haunting of Sarah Hardy | Emily Thetford | 1989-05-31 | Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast … |
| Leave of Absence | Janet | 1994-05-11 | A man asks his wife for a ‘leave of absence’ in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer…. |
| Born Beautiful | Marion Carmody | 1982-11-01 | This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to… |
| How To Pick Up Girls! | Dana Greenberg | 1978-01-06 | A shy guy gets fired for dating his boss’ girlfriend. Taking advantage of his situation he writes a book on how to pick up chicks and on the way fin… |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal | Barbara Fox | 1993-02-19 | The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she’s been using. She’s been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that … |
| The Surrogate | Sandy Gilman | 1995-10-22 | Amy Winslow wants to go to art college but can’t get her financial aid approved. A help wanted ad leads to a couple that will let her move into their … |
| She Was Marked for Murder | Laura Lee Webster | 1988-12-18 | While jogging in New York Central Park, the rich widow Elena meets Eric. Although he’s 10 years younger, she falls in love with him and they marry sho… |
| That’s My Boy | Betty ‘Babs’ Hunter | 1951-05-31 | Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden… |
| Escape from Fort Bravo | Alice Owens | 1953-12-04 | A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain’s Arizona fort…. |
| Making Mr. Right | Estelle Stone | 1987-01-01 | A reclusive scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long term space mission. Since the scientist seems to lack all human emoti… |
| My Brother’s Wife | Myra Gilbert | 1989-12-17 | Barney is a guy who comes home for his father’s funeral. Eleanor, his brother’s wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where … |
| Velvet | Mrs. Vance | 1984-08-27 | A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of crimin… |
| At War with the Army | Helen Palmer | 1950-04-14 | Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli… |
| Struck by Lightning | Grandma | 2012-04-20 | After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazi… |
| Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored | Miss Maybry | 1996-01-26 | This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on eac… |
| Cry-Baby | Mrs. Vernon-Williams | 1990-04-05 | A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her grandmother’s wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent…. |
| Across The Rio Grande | Polly Burgin | 1949-05-14 | Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannon… |
| Doris Day: It’s Magic | Herself | 1998-10-18 | When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers clos… |
| A Guide for the Married Man | Technical Adviser (Clara Brown) | 1967-01-01 | A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one’s wife without being caught…. |
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