
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Polly Bergen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
100 acting credits
Acting · 100

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Desperate Housewives
2004

The Sopranos
1999

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Love Boat
1977

Wagon Train
1957

Dr. Kildare
1961

Hotel
1982

Touched by an Angel
1994

Tony Awards
1956
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Jake and the Fatman
1987

What's My Line?
1950

The Red Skelton Show
1951

The Oscars
1953

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Jack Benny Program
1950

The Bob Hope Show
1950

Commander in Chief
2005

Thriller
1973

Twice in a Lifetime
1999

Burke's Law
1994

Kraft Music Hall
1958

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

Startime
1959

Ellery Queen
1975

The Dean Martin Show
1965

The Hollywood Palace
1964

The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953

The Winds of War
1983

War and Remembrance
1988

The Dick Clark Show
1958

American Bandstand
1957

The Danny Thomas Hour
1967

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Cry-Baby
1990

General Electric Theater
1953

Cape Fear
1962

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

79 Park Avenue
1977
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
Max Liebman Presents
1954

A Guide for the Married Man
1967

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019

Champion
1949

The Men
1950

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991

Warpath
1951

Escape from Fort Bravo
1953

Struck by Lightning
2013

Move Over, Darling
1963

The Stooge
1951

Murder on Flight 502
1975

Telethon
1977

How to Pick Up Girls!
1978
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
1957

Addicted to His Love
1988

Kisses for My President
1964

In the Blink of an Eye
1996

At War with the Army
1950

For Hope
1996

Making Mr. Right
1987

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1996

Arena
1953

That's My Boy
1951

Velvet
1984
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976

Born Beautiful
1982

Fast Company
1953

My Brother's Wife
1989
The Blue Angel
1954

The Helen Morgan Story
1957
The Polly Bergen Show
1957

Leave of Absence
1994

Death Cruise
1974

Candles on Bay Street
2006

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958

The Caretakers
1963

Mother, Mother
1989

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
1989

The Lightning Incident
1991

Doris Day: It's Magic
1998

Across The Rio Grande
1949

The Million Dollar Face
1981

Belle Sommers
1962

Cry of the Hunted
1953

She Was Marked for Murder
1988

A Very Serious Person
2006

An Echo of Theresa
1973

The Surrogate
1995

Baby Talk
1991
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
1978