Acting
Polly Bergen
EN cinema · 50 credits
Born
14 July 1930
Died
20 September 2014 (aged 84)
Birthplace
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Also known as Nellie Paulina Burgin
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
Filmography
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress
Struck by Lightning
as Grandma
A Very Serious Person
as Mrs. A
Candles on Bay Street
as Rosemary
In the Blink of an Eye
as Murial
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
as Miss Maybry
For Hope
as Molly Altman
The Surrogate
as Sandy Gilman
Leave of Absence
as Janet
Cry-Baby
as Mrs. Vernon-Williams
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
as Emily Thetford
My Brother's Wife
as Myra Gilbert
Mother, Mother
as Barbara Cutler
Addicted to His Love
as Vivien Langford
She Was Marked for Murder
as Laura Lee Webster
Making Mr. Right
as Estelle Stone
Velvet
as Mrs. Vance
Born Beautiful
as Marion Carmody
The Million Dollar Face
as Jo Burns
How to Pick Up Girls!
as Dana Greenberg
Li'l Abner in Dogpatch Today
as Phyllis Shoefly
Telethon
as Dorothy Goodwin
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
Murder on Flight 502
as Mona Briarly
Death Cruise
as Sylvia Carter
An Echo of Theresa
as Suzy Hunter
A Guide for the Married Man
as Technical Adviser
Kisses for My President
as Leslie McCloud
Move Over, Darling
as Bianca Steele
The Caretakers
as Lorna Melford
Cape Fear
as Peggy Bowden
Belle Sommers
as Belle Sommers
The Helen Morgan Story
as Helen Morgan
Cry of the Hunted
as Janet Tunner
Escape from Fort Bravo
as Alice Owens
Arena
as Ruth Danvers
Fast Company
as Carol Maldon
That's My Boy
as Betty 'Babs' Hunter
The Stooge
as Mary Turner
Warpath
as Molly Quade
At War with the Army
as Helen
The Men
as Nightclub Singer (Uncredited)
Across The Rio Grande
as Polly Burgin
Champion
as Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)