Polly Bergen

AKA:
Nellie Paulina Burgin
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
07/14/1930
Birthplace:
Knoxville, Tennessee
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biography
On the surface she was an attractive, refined, polished woman but Polly Bergen possessed eyes that twinkled as if to say she's also a lot of fun. The result was a career that has carried through five decades of music, mirth and drama and a reign as a symbol of beauty. Bergen is best recalled for her numerous books on how any woman can create style on a shoe-string, her numerous musical albums and her roles in film and TV, especially the 1983 miniseries "The Winds of War" and its 1988 sequel "War and Remembrance". In the latter two productions, she was the usually slightly tipsy Rhoda Henry, as Continued
Credits
Peggy Bowden
1962
Mrs Unterveldt
1953
Estelle Stone
Mrs Vernon-Williams
Janet Tunner
Bianca Steele Arden
Lorna Melford
Leslie McCloud
Belle Sommers
milestones
Year
Milestone
1944 
Made professional singing debut
1950 
Made film debut in "At War With the Army"
1950 
Regularly sang on "The Alan Young Show"
1951 
Recorded first album, "Little Girl Blue"
1952 
Made dramatic TV debut in an episode of "Schlitz Playhouse" (CBS)
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