Polly Bergen
- Acting
- July 14, 1930 · Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- September 20, 2014
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Polly Bergen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast · Self
- Struck by Lightning · Grandma
- Candles on Bay Street · Rosemary
- A Very Serious Person · Mrs. A
- Commander in Chief · Kate Allen
- Desperate Housewives · Stella Wingfield
- Twice in a Lifetime · Judge Deborah
- The Sopranos · Fran Felstein
- Doris Day: It's Magic · Self
- For Hope · Molly Altman
- In the Blink of an Eye · Murial
- Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored · Miss Maybry
- The Surrogate · Sandy Gilman
- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
- Touched by an Angel · Stella Applegate
- Leave of Absence · Janet
- Burke's Law · Rachel Doucet
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal · Barbara Fox
- The Lightning Incident · Carol
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star · Self
- Baby Talk · Doris Campbell
- Cry-Baby · Mrs. Vernon-Williams
- My Brother's Wife · Myra Gilbert
- The Haunting of Sarah Hardy · Emily Thetford
- Mother, Mother · Barbara Cutler
- She Was Marked for Murder · Laura Lee Webster
- War and Remembrance · Rhoda Henry
- Addicted to His Love · Vivien Langford
- Jake and the Fatman · Emma Julian
- Making Mr. Right · Estelle Stone
- Murder, She Wrote · Dr. Jocelyn Laird
- Velvet · Mrs. Vance
- The Winds of War · Rhoda Henry
- Born Beautiful · Marion Carmody
- Hotel · Elizabeth Hastings
- The Million Dollar Face · Jo Burns
- Li'l Abner in Dogpatch Today · Phyllis Shoefly
- How to Pick Up Girls! · Dana Greenberg
- Telethon · Dorothy Goodwin
- 79 Park Avenue · Vera Keppler
- The Love Boat · Maisie Nolan, Dana Pierce
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy · (archive footage)
- Murder on Flight 502 · Mona Briarly
- Ellery Queen · Dina Carroll-Winer
- Death Cruise · Sylvia Carter
- Thriller · Suzy Hunter
- An Echo of Theresa · Suzy Hunter
- The Danny Thomas Hour · Self
- A Guide for the Married Man · Technical Adviser
- The Dean Martin Show
- Kisses for My President · Leslie McCloud
- The Hollywood Palace · Self
- Move Over, Darling · Bianca Steele
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre · Jennifer Randolph
- The Caretakers · Lorna Melford
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- Belle Sommers · Belle Sommers
- Cape Fear · Peggy Bowden
- The Mike Douglas Show · Self
- Dr. Kildare · Janice Graham / Cathy Brandon
- Startime · Self
- The Bell Telephone Hour · Self
- The All-Star Christmas Show · Self
- Kraft Music Hall
- The Dick Clark Show · Self
- The Polly Bergen Show · Host
- Wagon Train · Kitty Allbright
- Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party · Self
- American Bandstand · Self
- The Helen Morgan Story · Helen Morgan
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show · Self
- Tony Awards · Self
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Crystal Coe
- The Jimmy Durante Show · Self
- Max Liebman Presents
- The Blue Angel · Co-Host
- Escape from Fort Bravo · Alice Owens
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse · Self, Host
- Arena · Ruth Danvers