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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 Helen Morgan (Playhouse 90).
Polly Bergen started her film career in 1949 when she played a singer in the Mark Robson-directed award-winning film ‘Champion.’ After signing with ‘Paramount Pictures,’ she was cast to play Helen Palmer in the 1950 musical comedy film ‘At War with the Army.’
In the early 1960s, Bergen formed a cosmetics firm that marketed beauty preparations made from "the oil of the turtle." In 1973, Bergen sold the cosmetic company to Fabérge.
- July 14, 1930
- September 20, 2014
Truly one for the ages, Polly has, at age 70+, nabbed a Tony nomination for her gutsy "I'm Still Here" entertainer Carlotta in Stephen Sondheim 's "Follies", and was still dishing out the barbs as she recently demonstrated as Felicity Huffman 's earthy mom on Desperate Housewives (2004).
- January 1, 1
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- January 1, 1
- Southbury, Connecticut, USA
Earlier on, Bergen had recorded a scattered pile of hillbilly tunes (the byproduct of her birth in Tennessee), novelty kitsch, and a fine first album of torch songs, heard here in its entirety. Bergen had a true bedroom voice, with a sweet-and-sour tone and a purring vibrato.
Biography. In 1958, Bergen won an Emmy Award for her role as Helen Morgan in the Playhouse 90 drama series The Helen Morgan Story. She also was awarded with a Tony Award in 2001 for her role as Carlotta Campion in Follies. In the early 1960s, she was nominated with two Golden Globe Award for Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963).
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In 1958, seven years after her first Hollywood feature film with Martin and Lewis, Bergen won a best-actress EMMY for her compelling CBS' William S. Paley's Television anthology series "Playhouse 90" in her portrayal of Helen Morgan, the troubled torch singer of the 1920s and '30s.
