Polly Bergen
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
106
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
Golden Globe Awards
Murder, She Wrote
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Dr. Kildare
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
What's My Line?
What's My Line?
Wagon Train
Touched by an Angel
The Merv Griffin Show
Hotel
The Oscars
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Jack Benny Program
The Bob Hope Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Jake and the Fatman
Twice in a Lifetime
Champion
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ellery Queen
Thriller
Warpath
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
The Winds of War
Velvet
Burke's Law
Leave of Absence
Kraft Music Hall
Commander in Chief
Born Beautiful
The Danny Thomas Hour
The Men
The Dean Martin Show
Cry of the Hunted
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bell Telephone Hour
War and Remembrance
The Jimmy Durante Show
My Brother's Wife
Startime
That's My Boy
The Dick Clark Show
Belle Sommers
Fast Company
American Bandstand
Struck by Lightning
Cry-Baby
The Hollywood Palace
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cape Fear
A Very Serious Person
Escape from Fort Bravo
Move Over, Darling
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
79 Park Avenue
General Electric Theater
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Murder on Flight 502
In the Blink of an Eye
The Caretakers
The Polly Bergen Show
Max Liebman Presents
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
A Guide for the Married Man
Candles on Bay Street
For Hope
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Doris Day: It's Magic
The Million Dollar Face
Making Mr. Right
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
The Stooge
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
Telethon
At War with the Army
Kisses for My President
The Surrogate
The Lightning Incident
Death Cruise
She Was Marked for Murder
Mother, Mother
How to Pick Up Girls!
Addicted to His Love
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Arena
The All-Star Christmas Show
Across The Rio Grande
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
The Blue Angel
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
The Helen Morgan Story
Baby Talk
An Echo of Theresa
