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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 was born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930, in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, to William Hugh Burgin and Lucy. She grew up alongside her sister Barbra in Knoxville before moving to Los Angeles with her family.
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
Apr 8, 1989 · WASHINGTON -- For more than 40 years, actress Polly Bergen kept hidden deep within her heart a terrible secret: At age 17, she had a back-alley abortion that left her unable to ever have her own...
Polly Bergen. Actress: Cry-Baby. In a six-decade-plus career (she started out as a radio performer at age 14), there are very few facets of entertainment that lovely singer/actress Polly Bergen has not conquered or, at the very least, touched upon.
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- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- 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.
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Nellie Paulina Burgin (July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014), better known by her stage name Polly Bergen, was an American actress, singer, television host, and businesswoman. Biography. In 1958, Bergen won an Emmy Award for her role as Helen Morgan in the Playhouse 90 drama series The Helen Morgan Story.
