Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen

Birthday: 1930-07-14

Deathday: 2014-09-20

Place of birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Also known as: Nellie Paulina Burgin

imdb_id: nm0000917

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

Played in movies:

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Score: 7.5

Cape Fear

Score: 7.4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

Score: 7.3

The Men

Score: 7.0

Fast Company

Score: 7.0

Kisses for My President

Score: 7.0

Champion

Score: 6.6

The Stooge

Score: 6.6

Move Over, Darling

Score: 6.6

Cry-Baby

Score: 6.5

The Surrogate

Score: 6.3

Struck by Lightning

Score: 6.2

The Caretakers

Score: 6.2

Escape from Fort Bravo

Score: 6.2

Candles on Bay Street

Score: 6.1

For Hope

Score: 6.0

Addicted to His Love

Score: 6.0

A Guide for the Married Man

Score: 5.9

Warpath

Score: 5.8

Death Cruise

Score: 5.8

That's My Boy

Score: 5.8

A Very Serious Person

Score: 5.8

Cry of the Hunted

Score: 5.7

Murder on Flight 502

Score: 5.7

Velvet

Score: 5.5

In the Blink of an Eye

Score: 5.4

At War with the Army

Score: 5.3

Making Mr. Right

Score: 5.0

Telethon

Score: 5.0

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Score: 4.7

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

Score: 4.7

Arena

Score: 4.7

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Score: 4.3

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

Score: 4.2

She Was Marked for Murder

Score: 4.0

The Lightning Incident

Score: 4.0

Across The Rio Grande

Score: 3.7

Leave of Absence

Score: 3.5

How to Pick Up Girls!

Score: 2.0

Mother, Mother

Score: 2.0

Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today

Score: 0.0

Born Beautiful

Score: 0.0

Belle Sommers

Score: 0.0

My Brother's Wife

Score: 0.0

An Echo of Theresa

Score: 0.0

The Million Dollar Face

Score: 0.0

The Helen Morgan Story

Score: 0.0

Doris Day: It's Magic

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Sopranos

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

American Bandstand

Score: 8.4

War and Remembrance

Score: 8.0

Desperate Housewives

Score: 7.9

The Jack Benny Program

Score: 7.8

Commander in Chief

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Winds of War

Score: 7.4

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

The Red Skelton Show

Score: 7.4

The Red Skelton Show

Score: 7.4

The Red Skelton Show

Score: 7.4

The Bell Telephone Hour

Score: 7.3

The Bell Telephone Hour

Score: 7.3

The Dean Martin Show

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Bob Hope Show

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

Baby Talk

Score: 6.8

Hotel

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Burke's Law

Score: 6.7

Thriller

Score: 6.6

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.1

Startime

Score: 6.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

The Dick Clark Show

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Twice in a Lifetime

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Danny Thomas Hour

Score: 5.0

79 Park Avenue

Score: 4.8

Kraft Music Hall

Score: 4.7

The Hollywood Palace

Score: 4.5

The Hollywood Palace

Score: 4.5

The Hollywood Palace

Score: 4.5

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Score: 0.0

Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party

Score: 0.0

The Polly Bergen Show

Score: 0.0

The Blue Angel

Score: 0.0

Max Liebman Presents

Score: 0.0

The Jimmy Durante Show

Score: 0.0

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Score: 0.0