Polly Bergen
Acting
Born 1930-07-14 · Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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
Cry-Baby
1990 · Movie
Cape Fear
1962 · Movie
My Brother's Wife
1989 · Movie
Move Over, Darling
1963 · Movie
Belle Sommers
1962 · Movie
Champion
1949 · Movie
The Men
1950 · Movie
Kisses for My President
1964 · Movie
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · Movie
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993 · Movie
The Million Dollar Face
1981 · Movie
Fast Company
1953 · Movie
Escape from Fort Bravo
1953 · Movie
The Stooge
1951 · Movie
Warpath
1951 · Movie
Addicted to His Love
1988 · Movie
Velvet
1984 · Movie
For Hope
1996 · Movie
Struck by Lightning
2013 · Movie
Born Beautiful
1982 · Movie
Candles on Bay Street
2006 · Movie
A Guide for the Married Man
1967 · Movie
Mother, Mother
1989 · Movie
An Echo of Theresa
1973 · Movie
That's My Boy
1951 · Movie
The Caretakers
1963 · Movie
Death Cruise
1974 · Movie
Telethon
1977 · Movie
Murder on Flight 502
1975 · Movie
Making Mr. Right
1987 · Movie
In the Blink of an Eye
1996 · Movie
The Surrogate
1995 · Movie
Cry of the Hunted
1953 · Movie
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Movie
At War with the Army
1950 · Movie
The Lightning Incident
1991 · Movie
A Very Serious Person
2006 · Movie
She Was Marked for Murder
1988 · Movie
Arena
1953 · Movie
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1996 · Movie
Leave of Absence
1994 · Movie
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989 · Movie
How to Pick Up Girls!
1978 · Movie
Across The Rio Grande
1949 · Movie
Doris Day: It's Magic
1998 · Movie
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Movie