Polly Bergen
Also Known As: Nellie Paulina Burgin
Biography: 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
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 14, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 20, 2014
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A Guide for the Married Man
Overview: A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-25
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Move Over, Darling
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-19
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Cape Fear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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At War with the Army
Overview: Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Cry-Baby
Overview: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Cry of the Hunted
Overview: A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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A Very Serious Person
Overview: 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 grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Candles on Bay Street
Overview: 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 now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary about DeeDee after Sam tells her that they were best friends growing up and DeeDee was his first crush. But DeeDee and Trooper find their way into many hearts of the townspeople with their sweet helpfulness and friendships. DeeDee sets up a candle making business in town square and invites many of the ladies of the town to weekly candle making parties, and through these parties she and Lydia become good friends. One evening after dinner with Lydia and Sam, DeeDee tells Sam she's very sick and she doesn't have much longer to live and she needs his help to find a good family in town to adopt Trooper. Sam later tells Lydia everything and they decide to adopt Trooper themselves if/when something happens to DeeDee.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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That's My Boy
Overview: Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm. He uses his athletic reputation and standing as #1 alumni contributor to pressure the coach to take Junior onto the team. In addition, he pays the tuition of Junior's financially needy classmate Bill Baker, a potential all-American, with the understanding that he will room with Junior and mentor him athletically and socially. Junior's initial efforts as quarterback prove disastrous and further complications arise when the room mates both fall in love with the same co-ed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Escape from Fort Bravo
Overview: A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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Death Cruise
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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The Caretakers
Overview: This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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The Stooge
Overview: 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 audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Struck by Lightning
Overview: After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Overview: 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 she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream. She's later killed and the formula missing. Her husband is arrested and Perry defends him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-19
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Murder on Flight 502
Overview: On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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In the Blink of an Eye
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-24
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Arena
Overview: Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-24
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Doris Day: It's Magic
Overview: 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 close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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Warpath
Overview: 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 not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Kisses for My President
Overview: A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Across The Rio Grande
Overview: Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Steve is investigating his father's sudden death after charges of theft from the Sloan/Carson mine. Sloan is killed after Wakely learns that ore is being smuggled across the Mexican border into the mine, and then sold at the higher U.S. prices
Genres: Action Adventure Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-14
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The Lightning Incident
Overview: McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
Overview: Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast inheritance. But something – or someone – evil waits there for her. It could be real. Or imagined. Whatever it is , it wants to drive Sarah into madness. And on the other side of madness lies murder. Featuring a tour de force performances by Morgan Fairchild and Polly Bergen, The Haunting of Sarah Hardy is sheer gothic suspense at its most wicked.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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The Helen Morgan Story
Overview: 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 own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Addicted to His Love
Overview: 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 money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-27
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The Surrogate
Overview: 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 quiet guest home rent free, a dream come true except that Joan wants Amy to be a surrogate mother for her next child. Little does Amy know the dark sinister reasons behind her desire, the scandalous death of Joan's first infant child and the fear she might hurt her next baby. The baby is adopted before Amy wakes up in the hospital, leading to a dangerous confrontation to claim the child finally for her own.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-22
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Overview: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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For Hope
Overview: The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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Fast Company
Overview: The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Telethon
Overview: The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-06
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The Million Dollar Face
Overview: 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 be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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The Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-25
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Making Mr. Right
Overview: 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 real feelings for the faux human.
Genres: Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Overview: A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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Leave of Absence
Overview: A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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She Was Marked for Murder
Overview: 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 shortly after. Soon she discovers that he has a long-going affair with her secretary Claire. Elena suspects they're after her money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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An Echo of Theresa
Overview: American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as "Theresa." But it seems to be more than an innocent slip of the tongue. Brad begins behaving strangely and knows more about specific locations in London than he would as a first time visitor. Suzy hires private detective Matthew Earp to look into the reasons behind her husbands sudden change in personality. This aired on British TV as part of the "Thriller" series (under the title "An Echo of Theresa") but was issued as a featured on home video in the U.S. as "Anatomy of Terror."
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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My Brother's Wife
Overview: 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 they first met. And Barney recalls how things kept them apart like his need to act out at his father. And his fear of commitment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-17
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Belle Sommers
Overview: A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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Born Beautiful
Overview: 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 see what else she can do and at the same time try to straighten out her personal life cause her husband has demanded that she should be either a full time wife or give him a divorce. And she has also taken an aspiring model under her wing, and is considering also being a photographer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Velvet
Overview: 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 criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-27
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Mother, Mother
Overview: 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 his estranged mother. Unable to understand or accept each other's lives, mother and son are at a stalemate of their own making.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-06
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How to Pick Up Girls!
Overview: The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Champion
Overview: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Overview: In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply hanging out with friends, telling anecdotes from his life and recording jazz standards.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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