This coolly elegant, poised blonde star of the 1960s and 70s came to prominence playing the lesbian member of "The Group" (1966), her film debut. But Candice Bergen won few critical raves for her subsequent work as a performer, and was often considered stiff on camera. All that changed when she was cast as "Murphy Brown", the curmudgeonly recovering alcoholic and competitive, self-absorbed single mother anchor/reporter of a fictional TV magazine show on the long-running CBS sitcom. Once said not to be able to handle comedy by the Hollywood powers-that-be, she went on to win a record five Emmy