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Polly Bergen
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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 1…
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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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2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie Self - Actress
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2013
Struck by Lightning
Movie Grandma
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2006
Candles on Bay Street
Movie Rosemary
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2006
A Very Serious Person
Movie Mrs. A
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2005
Commander in Chief
TV show Kate Allen
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2004
Desperate Housewives
TV show Stella Wingfield
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1999
Twice in a Lifetime
TV show Judge Deborah
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1999
The Sopranos
TV show Fran Felstein
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1998
Doris Day: It's Magic
Movie Self
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1996
For Hope
Movie Molly Altman
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1996
In the Blink of an Eye
Movie Murial
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1996
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Movie Miss Maybry
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1995
The Surrogate
Movie Sandy Gilman
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1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Movie
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show Stella Applegate
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1994
Leave of Absence
Movie Janet
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1994
Burke's Law
TV show Rachel Doucet
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Movie Barbara Fox
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1991
The Lightning Incident
Movie Carol
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1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie Self
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1991
Baby Talk
TV show Doris Campbell
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1990
Cry-Baby
Movie Mrs. Vernon-Williams
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1989
My Brother's Wife
Movie Myra Gilbert
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1989
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
Movie Emily Thetford
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1989
Mother, Mother
Movie Barbara Cutler
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1988
She Was Marked for Murder
Movie Laura Lee Webster
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1988
War and Remembrance
TV show Rhoda Henry
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1988
Addicted to His Love
Movie Vivien Langford
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1987
Jake and the Fatman
TV show Emma Julian
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1987
Making Mr. Right
Movie Estelle Stone
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Dr. Jocelyn Laird
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1984
Velvet
Movie Mrs. Vance
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1983
The Winds of War
TV show Rhoda Henry
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1982
Born Beautiful
Movie Marion Carmody
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1982
Hotel
TV show Elizabeth Hastings
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1981
The Million Dollar Face
Movie Jo Burns
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1978
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
Movie Phyllis Shoefly
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1978
How to Pick Up Girls!
Movie Dana Greenberg
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1977
Telethon
Movie Dorothy Goodwin
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1977
79 Park Avenue
TV show Vera Keppler
