Polly Bergen

from Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

Artwork for Cape FearImage of 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.

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Timeline

2019Aged 89

  • Poster for Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

    Self - Actress

2013Aged 83

  • Poster for Struck by Lightning

    Grandma

2006Aged 76

  • Poster for A Very Serious Person

    Mrs. A

  • Poster for Candles on Bay Street

    Rosemary

1998Aged 68

  • Poster for Doris Day: It's Magic

    Self

1996Aged 66

  • Poster for Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

    Miss Maybry

  • Poster for In the Blink of an Eye

    Murial

  • Poster for For Hope

    Molly Altman

1995Aged 65

  • Poster for Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Surrogate

    Sandy Gilman

1994Aged 64

  • Poster for Leave of Absence

    Janet

1993Aged 63

  • Poster for Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

    Barbara Fox

1991Aged 61

  • Poster for Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

    Self

  • Poster for The Lightning Incident

    Carol

1990Aged 60

  • Poster for Cry-Baby

    Mrs. Vernon-Williams

1989Aged 59

  • Poster for Mother, Mother

    Barbara Cutler

  • Poster for The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

    Emily Thetford

  • Poster for My Brother's Wife

    Myra Gilbert

1988Aged 58

  • Poster for Addicted to His Love

    Vivien Langford

  • Poster for She Was Marked for Murder

    Laura Lee Webster

1987Aged 57

  • Poster for Making Mr. Right

    Estelle Stone

1984Aged 54

  • Poster for Velvet

    Mrs. Vance

1982Aged 52

  • Poster for Born Beautiful

    Marion Carmody

1981Aged 51

  • Poster for The Million Dollar Face

    Jo Burns

1978Aged 48

  • Poster for How to Pick Up Girls!

    Dana Greenberg

  • Poster for Li'l Abner in Dogpatch Today

    Phyllis Shoefly

1977Aged 47

  • Poster for Telethon

    Dorothy Goodwin

1976Aged 46

1975Aged 45

  • Poster for Murder on Flight 502

    Mona Briarly

1974Aged 44

  • Poster for Death Cruise

    Sylvia Carter

1973Aged 43

  • Poster for An Echo of Theresa

    Suzy Hunter

1967Aged 37

  • Poster for A Guide for the Married Man

    Technical Adviser

1964Aged 34

  • Poster for Kisses for My President

    Leslie McCloud

1963Aged 33

  • Poster for The Caretakers

    Lorna Melford

  • Poster for Move Over, Darling

    Bianca Steele

1962Aged 32

  • Poster for Cape Fear

    Peggy Bowden

  • Poster for Belle Sommers

    Belle Sommers

1958Aged 28

  • Poster for The All-Star Christmas Show

    Self

1957Aged 27

  • Poster for The Helen Morgan Story

    Helen Morgan

1953Aged 23

  • Poster for Cry of the Hunted

    Janet Tunner

  • Poster for Fast Company

    Carol Maldon

  • Poster for Arena

    Ruth Danvers

  • Poster for Escape from Fort Bravo

    Alice Owens

1951Aged 21

  • Poster for That's My Boy

    Betty 'Babs' Hunter

  • Poster for The Stooge

    Mary Turner

  • Poster for Warpath

    Molly Quade

1950Aged 20

  • Poster for The Men

    Nightclub Singer (Uncredited)

  • Poster for At War with the Army

    Helen

1949Aged 19

  • Poster for Champion

    Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Across The Rio Grande

    Polly Burgin