Acting
Polly Bergen
Born July 14, 1930 · Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Died September 20, 2014 · aged 84
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…
Known For
A Guide for the Married Man · 1967A Guide for the Married Man
★ 5.91967
MovieComedyRomance
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Cry-Baby · 1990Cry-Baby
★ 6.51990
MovieComedyRomance
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Cape Fear · 1962Cape Fear
★ 7.51962
MovieThrillerDrama
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 his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde · 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
★ 4.71995
MovieComedyHorror
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 ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
The Men · 1950The Men
★ 7.01950
MovieDrama
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, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
Escape from Fort Bravo · 1953Escape from Fort Bravo
★ 6.31953
MovieWestern
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Struck by Lightning · 2013Struck by Lightning
★ 6.22013
MovieComedyDrama
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Move Over, Darling · 1963Move Over, Darling
★ 6.71963
MovieComedyRomance
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 goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
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Cry-Baby · 1990Cry-Baby
★ 6.51990
MovieComedyRomance
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Champion · 1949Champion
★ 6.71949
MovieDrama
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Radio and Jukebox Singer (voice) (uncredited)
















