Polly Bergen
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Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television presenter, and entrepreneur. Helen Morgan appeared in The Helen Morgan Story in 1958 and received an Emmy Award for her role as Helen Morgan.
She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001.
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, were among her film credits.
She hosted her own weekly variety show for a season (The Polly Bergen Show), was a regular panelist on television game show To Tell the Truth, and later in life, she appeared in The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives.
She wrote three books on beauty, fashion, and charm as an author.
Early life
Bergen was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Lucy (née Lawhorne; 1909–1982), a civil engineer, and William Hugh Burgin (1909–1982), a building engineer. Bill Bergen, as he later became known, performed well and appeared with his daughter in many episodes of her 18-episode comedy/variety program The Polly Bergen Show, which aired during the 1957–1958 television season to a great deal of excitement. Polly and Her Pop, a duet Columbia LP, was released by the company.
Personal life
Bergen was married to actress Jerome Courtland from 1950 to 1955. In 1957, she married Hollywood agent-producer Freddie Fields, with whom she had two adopted children, Pamela Kerry Fields and Peter William Fields, and Kathy Fields, a stepdaughter. Bergen went from Southern Baptist to Judaism after marrying Fields. In 1975, the couple divorced. In the 1980s, she was married to entrepreneur Jeffrey Endervelt.
Bergen wrote about having an abortion for inclusion in the book The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion in 1991.
Brandon Lee died on the set of The Crow in 1993, and Bergen held a commemoration for 200 of Lee's relatives, acquaintances, and business associates.
Bergen was a liberal-minded, politically active Democrat, and feminist. Planned Parenthood, an active promoter of the Equal Rights Amendment, women's education, and Planned Parenthood. Wendy Riche, a television actress, is Bergen's niece.
Career
Bergen appeared in many film roles, most prominently in the original Cape Fear (1962) opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. In the early 1950s, she appeared in three Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy films: That's My Boy, and The Stooge. During the 1950s, she appeared in a number of Westerns, including Warpath, Arena, and Escape from Fort Bravo. She appeared in Fast Company, the horse racing movie; she appeared as the first female commander-in-chief in Kisses for My President; and as the wife of James Garner in the romantic comedy Move Over, Darling, which also starred Doris Day. Mrs. Vernon-Williams in Cry-Baby, a John Waters film, was one of Bergen's later appearances.
In the episode The Helen Morgan Story of the 1950s television series Playhouse 90, Bergen received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of singer Helen Morgan. She appeared on Columbia Records and enjoyed a fruitful recording career during this period. "Bergen Sings Morgan," she recorded an album in 1957, which included the song "Bill."
She became known as "The Pepsi Cola Girl" in the 1950s, and has performed a number of commercials for this product.
When the game show To Tell the Truth first appeared, she served on the panelists. She appeared on What's My Line as a mystery guest and appeared three times as the occasional panelist. She appeared on Here's Hollywood in an interview program. In two miniseries: The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance, she received two Emmy Award nominations for her role as Rhoda Henry, wife of Captain "Pug" Henry (played by Robert Mitchum).
Bergen appeared in a 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Belasco Theatre, winning a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2003, she appeared in Six Dance Lessons opposite Mark Hamill in a role she took over from Rue McClanahan.
On HBO's The Sopranos, Bergen portrayed Fran Felstein, Johnny Soprano and John F. Kennedy. Bergen appeared as Stella Wingfield in Desperate Housewives from 2007 to 2011, earning her an Emmy Award nomination.
Mackenzie Allen, the fictional president of the United States, played by Geena Davis, a semi-regular cast member of Commander-in-Chief (2006). In the film Kisses for My President (1964), Bergen was once the first female president of the United States. Candles on Bay Street, a late evening appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame, in which she served as the assistant to a husband-and-wife team of veterinarians, was another lateness.
Bergen created the Polly Bergen Company cosmetics line in 1965, also known as Oil of the Turtle. She also produced jewelry and shoe lines, as well as writing three books on beauty.
