Polly Bergen
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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
Credits
Cape Fear (1962)
as Peggy Bowden
Cry-Baby (1990)
as Mrs. Vernon-Williams
The Men (1950)
as Nightclub Singer (Uncredited)
Warpath (1951)
as Molly Quade
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
as Technical Adviser (Clara Brown)
The Stooge (1951)
as Mary Turner
Struck by Lightning (2013)
as Grandma
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
as Alice Owens
Move Over, Darling (1963)
as Bianca Steele
For Hope (1996)
as Molly Altman
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1996)
as Miss Maybry
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
Actor
That's My Boy (1951)
as Betty 'Babs' Hunter
Champion (1949)
as Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)
In the Blink of an Eye (1996)
as Murial
Mother, Mother (1989)
as Barbara Cutler
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
as Self - Actress
How to Pick Up Girls! (1978)
as Dana Greenberg
Candles on Bay Street (2006)
as Rosemary
Making Mr. Right (1987)
as Estelle Stone
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
as Mona Briarly
The Surrogate (1995)
as Sandy Gilman
Telethon (1977)
as Dorothy Goodwin
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
as Barbara Fox
The Caretakers (1963)
as Lorna Melford
Death Cruise (1974)
as Sylvia Carter
Born Beautiful (1982)
as Marion Carmody
Leave of Absence (1994)
as Janet
Addicted to His Love (1988)
as Vivien Langford
Kisses for My President (1964)
as Leslie McCloud
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Janet Tunner
My Brother's Wife (1989)
as Myra Gilbert
At War with the Army (1950)
as Helen Palmer
Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
as Self
The Lightning Incident (1991)
as Carol
The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self
Velvet (1984)
as Mrs. Vance
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989)
as Emily Thetford
Arena (1953)
as Ruth Danvers
The Million Dollar Face (1981)
as Jo Burns
An Echo of Theresa (1973)
as Suzy Hunter
A Very Serious Person (2006)
as Mrs. A
Fast Company (1953)
as Carol Maldon
Belle Sommers (1962)
as Belle Sommers
Across The Rio Grande (1949)
as Polly Burgin
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
as Helen Morgan
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today (1978)
as Phyllis Shoefly
She Was Marked for Murder (1988)
as Laura Lee Webster