Movies List
TV Show List
Struck by Lightning

as Grandma

2012
Candles on Bay Street

as Rosemary

2006
The Surrogate

as Sandy Gilman

1995
Cry-Baby

as Mrs. Vernon-Williams

1990
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

as Emily Thetford

1989
Making Mr. Right

as Estelle Stone

1987
Murder on Flight 502

as Mona Briarly

1975
Death Cruise

as Sylvia Carter

1974
Kisses for My President

as Leslie McCloud

1964
Move Over, Darling

as Bianca Steele

1963
Cape Fear

as Peggy Bowden

1962
Cry of the Hunted

as Janet Tunner

1953
Escape from Fort Bravo

as Alice Owens

1953
The Stooge

as Mary Turner

1952
That's My Boy

as Betty 'Babs' Hunter

1951
Warpath

as Molly Quade

1951
Across The Rio Grande

as Polly Burgin

1949
Polly Bergen Polly Bergen

Birthday

1930-07-14

Place of Birth

Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

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
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