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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 …
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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
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Polly Bergen's Filmography
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress
Struck by Lightning
as Grandma
Candles on Bay Street
as Rosemary
A Very Serious Person
as Mrs. A
Doris Day: It's Magic
as Self
For Hope
as Molly Altman
In the Blink of an Eye
as Murial
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
as Miss Maybry
The Surrogate
as Sandy Gilman
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Leave of Absence
as Janet
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
as Barbara Fox
The Lightning Incident
as Carol
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
Cry-Baby
as Mrs. Vernon-Williams
My Brother's Wife
as Myra Gilbert
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
as Emily Thetford
Mother, Mother
as Barbara Cutler
She Was Marked for Murder
as Laura Lee Webster
Addicted to His Love
as Vivien Langford
Making Mr. Right
as Estelle Stone
Velvet
as Mrs. Vance
Born Beautiful
as Marion Carmody
The Million Dollar Face
as Jo Burns
Li'l Abner in Dogpatch Today
as Phyllis Shoefly
How to Pick Up Girls!
as Dana Greenberg
Telethon
as Dorothy Goodwin
No Poster
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
Murder on Flight 502
as Mona Briarly
Death Cruise
as Sylvia Carter
An Echo of Theresa
as Suzy Hunter
A Guide for the Married Man
as Technical Adviser
Kisses for My President
as Leslie McCloud
Move Over, Darling
as Bianca Steele
The Caretakers
as Lorna Melford
Belle Sommers
as Belle Sommers
Cape Fear
as Peggy Bowden
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
The Helen Morgan Story
as Helen Morgan
Escape from Fort Bravo
as Alice Owens
Arena
as Ruth Danvers
Fast Company
as Carol Maldon
Cry of the Hunted
as Janet Tunner
Warpath
as Molly Quade
The Stooge
as Mary Turner
That's My Boy
as Betty 'Babs' Hunter
At War with the Army
as Helen
The Men
as Nightclub Singer (Uncredited)
Across The Rio Grande
as Polly Burgin
Champion
as Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)