Sunday, September 21, 2014

Polly Bergen Has Died

Polly Bergen, an actress and singer who won an Emmy in 1957 for her portrayal of the alcoholic singer Helen Morgan and was nominated for another 50 years later for her role on the television show “Desperate Housewives,” died on Saturday at her home in Southbury, Conn. She was 84.

Posted by ent lawyer at 7:45 AM

20 comments:

  1. Unknown7:53 AM

    just GOOGLED. i figured she is alot more interesting than enty's quarter of a paragraph suggests. she IS. lol

    impressive body of work. im going to re-write enty's obits one day.

    RIP Polly...

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    1. Bluezz 8:21 AM

      @Virginia And I'll help you. ;-)

      It frustrates me when actors, that have a huge, solid body of work during their career, pass on & no one knows who they are.

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  2. Bluezz 7:54 AM

    Ahhh, damn. Polly Bergen was one of my favorites. :-(

    Add another who will keep the angels laughing.

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  3. MISCH8:03 AM

    She was very beautiful…very

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  4. Unknown8:24 AM

    I agree cornflower. She has been performing for over 60 years. That is a huge deal in entertainment. I knew an emmy in '58 and desparate housewives COULDN'T have been everything or her best work (matter of opinion of course).

    :^)

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  5. Dexamyl8:26 AM

    She also sold cosmetics. I vaguely remember my grandmother using her turtle oil cream, which sort of grossed me out.

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  6. WritergirlinLA8:33 AM

    Me thinks Enty had to google her. RIP Polly.

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    1. Bluezz 8:42 AM

      @Writergirl Yeah, given the fact he left out a little movie called Cape Fear. I can still see Robert Mitchum slither into the water like an alligator.

      Okay, okay. I'll get off my soapbox rant now. LOL!

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  7. Unknown8:49 AM

    @writergirl & cornflower

    there was so much in polly's imdb database for enty to use. she was on some legendary "classic" tv shows. the fact that enty googled and STILL missed most of the calssic stuff disturbs me. lol

    no offense but 20yo enty wrote this obit. an older person would have definitely known what information to add.

    ((no offense to younger readers, it's outside of your generational interests. not your fault))

    /RANT
    :^)

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    1. Bluezz 8:59 AM

      @Virginia I <3 you.

      Thanks for writing what I was thinking. Only more succinctly & less cussing. HA!

      Smooches!

      Bluezz is out. :-)

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  8. audrey8:49 AM

    RIP Ms Bergen.

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  9. doodoolemonque9:09 AM

    ...and my goodness, there had to have been 100's of pictures if her NOT in her 80's. She had noteworthy looks and killed in body contoured gowns. Enty must have had an issue with the talented, beautiful, late Ms Bergen, to have overlooked all her accomplishments and chosen THAT photo. Probably time now to let it go, eh?

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  10. Penelope9:31 AM

    She kicked ass in a lot of things; her frightened (& absolutely gorgeous) wife in the original Cape Fear comes to mind. The one performance of hers I could have done without was when she appeared on The Sopranos as Tony's late dad's mistress & it almost seemed like Tony was gonna bone the old broad himself. EW. But even in that her acting was excellent. RIP

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  11. auntliddy9:35 AM

    I always liked her and wondered why we didnt see more of her. She was a no nonesense gal, walked out of movie cotracts if she didnt like the part. That was pretty ballsy in the 40's. And i too remember her turtle oil cream, which freaked me out a little too. After all, every turtle you see is usually dry as toast, so where she was getting this oil, i dont know. Anyway Polly, good job, rest in peace.

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  12. Now!9:36 AM

    Polly Bergen was also one of the first celebrities to admit having had an abortion. It was an illegal back-street job, and she was left infertile. She was a strong supporter of a woman's right to a safe, legal abortion.

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    1. doodoolemonque6:22 AM

      Thank you for sharing this. I had not heard this before and now, maybe more than ever, it is important to remind those coming up just what alternative awaits of we go back to the way things were. Those "good old days" meant death or disfigurement to thousands of women yearly.

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  13. Trombones and Daffodils9:55 AM

    She was my first female president and she was fabulous. RIP.

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  14. 8====D KermitGossnellKnobjob11:32 AM

    RIP.

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  15. correy5:22 PM

    RIP, loved her in Cry-Baby among her other roles.

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  16. Aoife8:55 PM

    May she RIP.

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