Polly Bergen
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
108
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 Sopranos
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Desperate Housewives
Murder, She Wrote
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Golden Globe Awards
Wagon Train
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Hotel
The Merv Griffin Show
Touched by an Angel
Dr. Kildare
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
Jake and the Fatman
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
The Bob Hope Show
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Jack Benny Program
Kraft Music Hall
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Burke's Law
American Bandstand
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
The Dean Martin Show
Ellery Queen
Thriller
Commander in Chief
Twice in a Lifetime
Cape Fear
Murder on Flight 502
The Dick Clark Show
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
Champion
The Hollywood Palace
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Winds of War
Death Cruise
Warpath
War and Remembrance
Belle Sommers
The Surrogate
Fast Company
Born Beautiful
The Caretakers
Startime
Cry-Baby
Velvet
How to Pick Up Girls!
Escape from Fort Bravo
Making Mr. Right
A Guide for the Married Man
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
The Helen Morgan Story
Max Liebman Presents
The Danny Thomas Hour
She Was Marked for Murder
Kisses for My President
The Jimmy Durante Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Telethon
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
Addicted to His Love
Struck by Lightning
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Leave of Absence
The Lightning Incident
Candles on Bay Street
Across The Rio Grande
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
A Very Serious Person
That's My Boy
My Brother's Wife
In the Blink of an Eye
The Million Dollar Face
An Echo of Theresa
Cry of the Hunted
Doris Day: It's Magic
79 Park Avenue
At War with the Army
General Electric Theater
The Men
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Move Over, Darling
For Hope
The Stooge
The Polly Bergen Show
Arena
Mother, Mother
The Blue Angel
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
Baby Talk
The All-Star Christmas Show
