Polly Bergen
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
109
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-07-14
Day of death
2014-09-20 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Polly Bergen
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
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Sopranos
Desperate Housewives
Murder, She Wrote
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Bob Hope Show
The Jack Benny Program
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Wagon Train
Hotel
Touched by an Angel
Dr. Kildare
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
Jake and the Fatman
The Ed Sullivan Show
Twice in a Lifetime
Kraft Music Hall
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Oscars
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Thriller
Ellery Queen
Commander in Chief
The Dean Martin Show
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
The Hollywood Palace
Burke's Law
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour
American Bandstand
The Dick Clark Show
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
Startime
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
Cape Fear
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
War and Remembrance
At War with the Army
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
The Helen Morgan Story
The Winds of War
The Lightning Incident
An Echo of Theresa
Death Cruise
A Guide for the Married Man
The Stooge
Leave of Absence
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Champion
The Men
Mother, Mother
The Danny Thomas Hour
Struck by Lightning
Fast Company
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cry-Baby
For Hope
She Was Marked for Murder
The Surrogate
Warpath
Born Beautiful
The Jimmy Durante Show
Belle Sommers
Kisses for My President
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Caretakers
In the Blink of an Eye
Telethon
Making Mr. Right
Across The Rio Grande
79 Park Avenue
General Electric Theater
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Max Liebman Presents
Escape from Fort Bravo
Doris Day: It's Magic
Velvet
Addicted to His Love
The Million Dollar Face
A Very Serious Person
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Murder on Flight 502
Move Over, Darling
That's My Boy
Cry of the Hunted
My Brother's Wife
Candles on Bay Street
How to Pick Up Girls!
The Blue Angel
Arena
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
The Polly Bergen Show
Baby Talk
