Polly Bergen
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4923 |
| Birthday | 1930-07-14 |
| Place of Birth | Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
| Also Known As | Nellie Paulina Burgin, |
1967
A Guide for the Married Man
5.866/41
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
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A Guide for the Married Man
1963
Move Over, Darling
6.67/100
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that...
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Move Over, Darling
1962
Cape Fear
7.466/624
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi...
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Cape Fear
1950
At War with the Army
5.31/58
Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli...
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At War with the Army
1990
Cry-Baby
6.5/1564
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Cry-Baby
1953
Cry of the Hunted
6.083/12
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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Cry of the Hunted
2006
A Very Serious Person
5.75/16
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old gran...
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A Very Serious Person
2006
Candles on Bay Street
6.1/24
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is no...
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Candles on Bay Street
1951
That's My Boy
5.9/26
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden...
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That's My Boy
1953
Escape from Fort Bravo
6.315/84
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Escape from Fort Bravo
1974
Death Cruise
5.833/6
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
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Death Cruise
1963
The Caretakers
6.385/13
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
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The Caretakers
1951
The Stooge
6.735/34
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the...
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The Stooge
2013
Struck by Lightning
6.2/218
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazi...
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Struck by Lightning
1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
7.227/11
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1975
Murder on Flight 502
5.912/17
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Murder on Flight 502
1996
In the Blink of an Eye
5.889/9
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder...
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In the Blink of an Eye
1953
Arena
5/10
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
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Arena
1998
Doris Day: It's Magic
0/0
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers clos...
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Doris Day: It's Magic
1951
Warpath
6/15
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but...
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Warpath
1964
Kisses for My President
7.625/8
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
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Kisses for My President
1949
Across The Rio Grande
4.5/4
Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannon...
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Across The Rio Grande
1991
The Lightning Incident
5.5/4
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
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The Lightning Incident
1989
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
4.75/16
Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast...
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The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1957
The Helen Morgan Story
0/0
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her...
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The Helen Morgan Story
1988
Addicted to His Love
7/3
Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their mon...
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Addicted to His Love
1995
The Surrogate
6.333/9
Amy Winslow wants to go to art college but can't get her financial aid approved. A help wanted ad leads to a couple that will let her move into their...
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The Surrogate
1996
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
4.167/6
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1996
For Hope
6.333/3
The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
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For Hope
1953
Fast Company
7.5/2
When Carol Maldon inherits her family's stable and a horse with strong racing potential, she begins working with suave trainer Rick Grayton. Intent on...
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Fast Company
1977
Telethon
6/5
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
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Telethon
1981
The Million Dollar Face
8/1
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to b...
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The Million Dollar Face
1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.643/56
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an...
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1950
The Men
7.017/88
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition,...
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The Men
1987
Making Mr. Right
5.221/43
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very re...
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Making Mr. Right
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7.5/2
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1994
Leave of Absence
4.5/4
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
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Leave of Absence
1988
She Was Marked for Murder
5.5/2
While jogging in New York Central Park, the rich widow Elena meets Eric. Although he's 10 years younger, she falls in love with him and they marry sho...
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She Was Marked for Murder
1973
An Echo of Theresa
7/1
American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as "T...
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An Echo of Theresa
1989
My Brother's Wife
10/1
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where...
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My Brother's Wife
1962
Belle Sommers
9/1
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
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Belle Sommers
1982
Born Beautiful
7/1
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to...
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Born Beautiful
1984
Velvet
6.667/3
A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of crimin...
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Velvet
1989
Mother, Mother
6/2
A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and...
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Mother, Mother
1978
How to Pick Up Girls!
4/4
The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an aut...
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How to Pick Up Girls!
1949
Champion
6.685/100
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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Champion
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
4.6/5
In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
1978
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
0/0
The characters from the comic strip come alive with comedy and music.
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Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
6/1
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and t...
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The All-Star Christmas Show
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
0/0
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute coll...
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