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
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TV Series
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Thriller
6.6
The Sopranos
8.651
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
The Love Boat
6.262
Desperate Housewives
7.915
Touched by an Angel
7.2
Hotel
6.8
American Bandstand
8.4
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
General Electric Theater
6.25
Jake and the Fatman
6.041
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Twice in a Lifetime
5.5
Baby Talk
6.8
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
0
Kraft Music Hall
4.667
The Dean Martin Show
7.316
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
Ellery Queen
7.4
Dr. Kildare
5.5
The Oscars
7
The Jimmy Durante Show
0
Max Liebman Presents
0
The Blue Angel
0
Startime
6
The Polly Bergen Show
0
The Dick Clark Show
5.5
War and Remembrance
7.871
The Winds of War
7.275
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
0
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
What's My Line?
6.9
Burke's Law
6.7
Commander in Chief
7.7
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
The Bell Telephone Hour
7.333
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
79 Park Avenue
4.8
What's My Line?
6.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Tony Awards
5.1
Golden Globe Awards
7
Tony Awards
5.1
The Love Boat
6.262
The Danny Thomas Hour
5
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Bell Telephone Hour
7.333
Wagon Train
6.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
The Red Skelton Show
7.375
The Red Skelton Show
7.375
The Red Skelton Show
7.375
The Jack Benny Program
7.813
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
0
Movies
A Guide for the Married Man
5.9
Move Over, Darling
6.587
Cape Fear
7.446
At War with the Army
5.3
Cry-Baby
6.5
Cry of the Hunted
5.8
A Very Serious Person
5.8
Candles on Bay Street
6.1
That's My Boy
5.8
Escape from Fort Bravo
6.2
Death Cruise
5.8
The Caretakers
6.2
The Stooge
6.6
Struck by Lightning
6.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
7.3
Murder on Flight 502
5.719
In the Blink of an Eye
5.375
Arena
4.7
Doris Day: It's Magic
0
Warpath
5.8
Kisses for My President
7
Across The Rio Grande
3.7
The Lightning Incident
4
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
4.667
The Helen Morgan Story
0
Addicted to His Love
6
The Surrogate
5.7
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
4.2
For Hope
6
Fast Company
7
Telethon
5
The Million Dollar Face
0
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.7
The Men
6.987
Making Mr. Right
5
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7
Leave of Absence
3.5
She Was Marked for Murder
4
An Echo of Theresa
0
My Brother's Wife
0
Belle Sommers
0
Born Beautiful
0
Velvet
1
Mother, Mother
2
How to Pick Up Girls!
2
Champion
6.6
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
4.25