Polly Bergen
Born: 1930-07-14 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Died: 2014-09-20
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2019
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actress
2013
- Struck by Lightning as Grandma
2006
- A Very Serious Person as Mrs. A
- Candles on Bay Street as Rosemary
2005
- Commander in Chief as Kate Allen
2004
- Desperate Housewives as Stella Wingfield
1999
- The Sopranos as Fran Felstein
- Twice in a Lifetime as Judge Deborah
1998
- Doris Day: It's Magic as Self
1996
- Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored as Miss Maybry
- In the Blink of an Eye as Murial
- For Hope as Molly Altman
1995
- The Surrogate as Sandy Gilman
- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Stella Applegate
- Burke's Law as Rachel Doucet
- Leave of Absence as Janet
1993
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal as Barbara Fox
1991
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
- The Lightning Incident as Carol
- Baby Talk as Doris Campbell
1990
- Cry-Baby as Mrs. Vernon-Williams
1989
- My Brother's Wife as Myra Gilbert
- The Haunting of Sarah Hardy as Emily Thetford
- Mother, Mother as Barbara Cutler
1988
- War and Remembrance as Rhoda Henry
- She Was Marked for Murder as Laura Lee Webster
- Addicted to His Love as Vivien Langford
1987
- Jake and the Fatman as Emma Julian
- Making Mr. Right as Estelle Stone
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Jocelyn Laird
- Velvet as Mrs. Vance
1983
- The Winds of War as Rhoda Henry
1982
- Hotel as Elizabeth Hastings
- Born Beautiful as Marion Carmody
1981
- The Million Dollar Face as Jo Burns
1978
- Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today as Phyllis Shoefly
- How to Pick Up Girls! as Dana Greenberg
1977
- The Love Boat as Maisie Nolan
- Telethon as Dorothy Goodwin
- 79 Park Avenue as Vera Keppler
1975
- Ellery Queen as Dina Carroll-Winer
- Murder on Flight 502 as Mona Briarly
1974
- Death Cruise as Sylvia Carter
1973
- Thriller as Suzy Hunter
- An Echo of Theresa as Suzy Hunter
1967
- A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (Clara Brown)
- The Danny Thomas Hour as Self
1965
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
- Kisses for My President as Leslie McCloud
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Jennifer Randolph
- The Caretakers as Lorna Melford
- Move Over, Darling as Bianca Steele
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Cape Fear as Peggy Bowden
- Belle Sommers as Belle Sommers
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Janice Graham / Cathy Brandon
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- Startime
1958
- Kraft Music Hall
- The Dick Clark Show as Self
- The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
1957
- Wagon Train as Kitty Allbright
- American Bandstand as Self
- The Helen Morgan Story as Helen Morgan
- The Polly Bergen Show as Host
- Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Performer
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Crystal Coe
1954
- Max Liebman Presents
- The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
- The Blue Angel as Co-Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Fast Company as Carol Maldon
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Self - Hostess
- Escape from Fort Bravo as Alice Owens
- Cry of the Hunted as Janet Tunner
- General Electric Theater as Susan Barry
- Arena as Ruth Danvers
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Self / Myrtle
- Warpath as Molly Quade
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Rosemary
- That's My Boy as Betty 'Babs' Hunter
- The Stooge as Mary Turner
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Shirley
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Self
- The Men as Nightclub Singer (Uncredited)
- At War with the Army as Helen Palmer
1949
- Champion as Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)
- Across The Rio Grande as Polly Burgin
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter