Polly Bergen
Nacimiento : 1930-07-14, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Muerte : 2014-09-20
Historia
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 The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001. Her film work included Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She hosted her own weekly variety show for one season (The Polly Bergen Show), was a regular panelist on the TV game show To Tell The Truth and later in life had recurring roles in The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives. She wrote three books on beauty, fashion and charm. She is also the inspiration behind Mother Goose in The Land of Stories.
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Grandma
Un joven muere después de haber sido alcanzado por un rayo.
Rosemary
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary about DeeDee after Sam tells her that they were best friends growing up and DeeDee was his first crush. But DeeDee and Trooper find their way into many hearts of the townspeople with their sweet helpfulness and friendships. DeeDee sets up a candle making business in town square and invites many of the ladies of the town to weekly candle making parties, and through these parties she and Lydia become good friends. One evening after dinner with Lydia and Sam, DeeDee tells Sam she's very sick and she doesn't have much longer to live and she needs his help to find a good family in town to adopt Trooper. Sam later tells Lydia everything and they decide to adopt Trooper themselves if/when something happens to DeeDee.
Mrs. A
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.
Herself
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
Molly Altman
The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Miss Maybry
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Sandy Gilman
Amy Winslow wants to go to art college but can't get her financial aid approved. A help wanted ad leads to a couple that will let her move into their quiet guest home rent free, a dream come true except that Joan wants Amy to be a surrogate mother for her next child. Little does Amy know the dark sinister reasons behind her desire, the scandalous death of Joan's first infant child and the fear she might hurt her next baby. The baby is adopted before Amy wakes up in the hospital, leading to a dangerous confrontation to claim the child finally for her own.
En lo más profundo de la noche neoyorkina, un aspirante a científico, Richard Jacks, mezcla en botellas extrañas y burbujeantes pociones. Su obsesión le deja poco tiempo para su trabajo como creador de perfumes o para atender a su novia Sarah, pero en la vida Richard va a entrar otra mujer que va a cambiarlo todo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Janet
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Barbara Fox
El propietario de una empresa de cosméticos está presentando una nueva crema que revolucionará el mundo de la estética, una crema rejuvenecedora que realmente parece milagrosa.
Carol
Martha Townsend es una mujer normal y corriente que lleva una vida admirable. Está casada felizmente con un hombre que la adora, y esperan su primer hijo. Pero su existencia se complica cuando empieza a sufrir una serie de terribles pesadillas, que poco a poco se van convirtiendo en realidad. Asustada, decide pedir ayuda a un experto psicólogo, que descubre que Martha está atrapada por las fuerzas del mal convocadas por un diabólico culto celebrado en América Central. Martha recibe el socorro de una especie de poderes sobrenaturales, provocados por el espíritu de las Tormentas, y de esta manera planta cara a la Gran Sacerdotisa del diabólico culto. Después de dar a luz, cuando parece que su vida vuelve a la normalidad, su bebé es secuestrado con la intención de someterle a un horrible sacrificio.
Herself
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films, and the actor himself.
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Años cincuenta. Eisenhower es el Presidente de los Estados Unidos. En el ambiente musical domina el Rock. Wade "El lágrima" Walker, el chico más malo del instituto, es un joven irresistible cuya habilidad para llorar una sola lágrima vuelve locas a las chicas. Especialmente a Allison Vernon-Williams, una rica y bella jovencita que se siente irracionalmente atraída por este delincuente juvenil y su mundo de rock, coches rápidos y mujeres aún más rápidas.
Myra Gilbert
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where they first met. And Barney recalls how things kept them apart like his need to act out at his father. And his fear of commitment.
Emily Thetford
Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast inheritance. But something – or someone – evil waits there for her. It could be real. Or imagined. Whatever it is , it wants to drive Sarah into madness. And on the other side of madness lies murder. Featuring a tour de force performances by Morgan Fairchild and Polly Bergen, The Haunting of Sarah Hardy is sheer gothic suspense at its most wicked.
Barbara Cutler
A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and his estranged mother. Unable to understand or accept each other's lives, mother and son are at a stalemate of their own making.
Laura Lee Webster
While jogging in New York Central Park, the rich widow Elena meets Eric. Although he's 10 years younger, she falls in love with him and they marry shortly after. Soon she discovers that he has a long-going affair with her secretary Claire. Elena suspects they're after her money.
Estelle Stone
Frankie Stone es una cotizada asesora de imagen de personajes famosos. Un día recibe una oferta poco usual: idear la campaña de Ulysses, un androide de última generación, diseñado para realizar viajes espaciales y creado por Jeff Peters a su imagen y semejanza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Vance
A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.
Marion Carmody
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at the same time try to straighten out her personal life cause her husband has demanded that she should be either a full time wife or give him a divorce. And she has also taken an aspiring model under her wing, and is considering also being a photographer.
Dana Greenberg
Un chico tímido es despedido por salir con la novia de su jefe. Aprovechando su situación escribe un libro sobre cómo ligar chicas y en el camino encuentra a su amor.
Dorothy Goodwin
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Mona Briarly
En la sala VIP del aeropuerto, es encontrada una carta de advertencia que avisa de que se van a producir una serie de crímenes en el vuelo 502. Esta carta, aparece un día ante de tiempo. No obstante, al día siguiente, el vuelo despega del aeropuerto con todos sus pasajeros a bordo, sin saber que, entre ellos, se encuentra un maníaco homicida que ya ha cometido un crimen y que se dispone a volver a asesinar.
Sylvia Carter
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Suzy Hunter
American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as "Theresa." But it seems to be more than an innocent slip of the tongue. Brad begins behaving strangely and knows more about specific locations in London than he would as a first time visitor. Suzy hires private detective Matthew Earp to look into the reasons behind her husbands sudden change in personality. This aired on British TV as part of the "Thriller" series (under the title "An Echo of Theresa") but was issued as a featured on home video in the U.S. as "Anatomy of Terror."
Technical Adviser (Clara Brown)
Walter Matthau interpreta a un hombre felizmente casado desde hace doce años pero que comienza a sentirse inquieto, especialmente cuando observa a las bellezas que le rodean por todas partes en Los Ángeles. Su mejor amigo es también un hombre casado, pero tiene amantes desde hace doce años y decide aconsejar a su amigo de cómo tener una sin que se entere la esposa.
U.S. President Leslie McCloud
La elección de Leslie McCloud como Presidenta de los Estados Unidos supone importantes cambios, especialmente para su marido, que debe asumir las funciones de "primera dama".
Bianca Steele
Tras perder a su mujer Helen (Doris Day) en un accidente aéreo cinco años atrás, Nicholas (James Garner) pide al juez el certificado oficial de defunción para poder casarse de nuevo, pero Helen aparece el mismo día que el nuevo matrimonio inicia su viaje de novios. Versión-remake de "Mi mujer favorita" (My Favorite Wife, 1940), protagonizada por Cary Grant e Irene Dunne.
Lorna Melford
El joven doctor MacLeod ha desarrollado un nuevo método para tratar casos mentales y está esperando encontrar al paciente perfecto para probar su eficacia. Tiene en contra a otros miembros del consejo hospitalario, incluido el doctor Harrington, un veterano colega de mucha reputación, y de Lucretia Terry, la directora que dirige la institución con mano de hierro. Lorna Melford, una nueva paciente, será la escogida por el doctor MacLeod para probar el nuevo método. (FILMAFFINITY)
Belle Sommers
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Peggy Bowden
Gregory Peck interpreta a un abogado cuya peor pesadilla se convierte en realidad cuando el criminal que logró encarcelar regresa a la ciudad y empieza a molestar a su esposa (Pollu Bergen) y a su hija adolescente (Lori Martin). A pesar de la ayuda del jefe de policía (Martin Balsam) y de un detective privado (Telly Savalas), Peck no tiene ningún recurso legal para impedir que Mitchum deje de jugar con ellos al gato y al ratón. Finalmente Peck decide tenderle una trampa…
Alice Owens
Guerra Civil (1861-1865). En 1863, Fort Bravo se ha convertido en un campo de prisioneros de guerra sudistas, situado en el desierto de Arizona, territorio poblado por los belicosos apaches mescaleros. Con la ayuda de una mujer (Parker), un pequeño grupo de reclusos logra huir, pero el severo Capitán Roper (Holden) sale en su busca.
Ruth Danvers
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Carol Maldon
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
Janet Tunner
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Mary Turner
Bill (Deam Martin) utiliza a un cómico colocado entre el público (Jerry Lewis) para mejorar su espectáculo, el cual es su socio Ted. Los problemas inician cuando él sobresale más que Bill quien no puede soportarlo.
Molly Quade
John Vickers, un hombre pacífico, consigue dar con uno de los tres hombres que mataron a su amada durante un atraco a un banco. Antes de morir, el asesino le confiesa que sus cómplices se unieron al ejército, concretamente al 7º de caballería. Convertido en recluta, empieza a sospechar de uno de sus sargentos. Se debatirá, entonces, entre la obediencia al ejército y su venganza personal. (FILMAFFINITY)
Betty 'Babs' Hunter
Una estrella del futbol americano ve con desesperación como su hijo, que tiene grandes posibilidades, es muy torpe con el balón, y lo que más le horroriza, prefiere los libros a la pelota. para que su hijo no se convierta en un intelectual sin remedio, decide contratar a un entrenador personal para que saque el potencial que el chico lleva dentro.
Helen Palmer
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos soldados provocan todo tipo de situaciones inverosimiles en un campo de entrenamiento militar.
Polly Burgin
Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Steve is investigating his father's sudden death after charges of theft from the Sloan/Carson mine. Sloan is killed after Wakely learns that ore is being smuggled across the Mexican border into the mine, and then sold at the higher U.S. prices
