Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen

출생 : 1930-07-14, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

사망 : 2014-09-20

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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Polly Bergen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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스트럭 바이 라이트닝
Grandma
클로버라는 작은 마을의 변변찮은 학교에 다니지만 자기 스스로 열심히 길을 개척해 성공하려는 열망으로 가득 찬 17세 고교생 칼슨 필립스. 아빠와의 이혼으로 약물중독에 빠져있는 엄마와 함께 살며 학교에서도 따돌림을 받고 있는 그에게 유일한 낙은 글을 쓰는 일이다. 작은 마을을 벗어나 더 큰 세상으로 나가길 꿈꾸는 칼슨은 명문대학에 진학하기 위해 필요한 교내 잡지를 만들기로 하는데 생각만큼 쉽지 않자 인기 있는 동급생들의 교내 잡지 참여를 위해 협박까지 서슴지 않는다. 그러던 어느 날, 완벽한 계획 속에 살고 있던 칼슨에게 뜻밖의 일이 생기게 되는데…
베이 스트릿의 촛불
Rosemary
오랫동안 떠나 있던 고향 마을로 돌아온 싱글맘의 이야기.
A Very Serious Person
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.
Doris Day: It's Magic
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.
For Hope
Molly Altman
The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
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.
The Surrogate
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.
지킬 박사와 미스 하이드
향수 디자이너 잭은 알지도 못하는 증조부가 돌아가시면서 남긴 노트 한 권을 유산으로 받는다. 그런데 이 노트에는 알 수 없는 비밀공식들이 적혀 있다. 비밀공식과 씨름하던 잭은 실험도중 얻게 된 묘약을 마시고는 미끈하게 잘빠진 미스 하이드로 변신한다. 미스 하이드로 변한 잭은 회사 간부들을 유혹하더니 급기야는 자신의 애인인 사라를 괴롭히기 시작한다. 사라를 쫓아내고 잭의 침대를 차지한 미스 하이디는 잭의 비서 행세를 하면서 그의 자리를 독차지하려는 야심을 품고 온갖 나쁜 짓을 계획하는데....
Leave of Absence
Janet
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Barbara Fox
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream. She's later killed and the formula missing. Her husband is arrested and Perry defends him.
The Lightning Incident
Carol
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Herself
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films, and the actor himself.
사랑의 눈물
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
볼티모어의 한 고등학교의 학생인 크라이 베이비(Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker: 조니 뎁 분)는 괴상한 옷차림과 야한 화장을 하고 다니는 완다(Wanda: 트레이시 로즈 분)와 해처(Hatchet-Face: 킴 맥과이어 분). 또 고등학생이면서 이미 두 아이의 어머니이자 현재 임신 중인 페퍼(Pepper: 릭키 레이크 분) 등을 친구로 둔 문제아다. 이들은 핑크족이며 십대를 대변하는 아이들이기도 하다. 한편, 터프 가이인 크라이 베이비는 부유한 가정의 엘리슨(Allison Vernon-Williams: 에이미 로케인 분)을 사랑하는데 엘리슨도 같은 환경의 남자 친구 볼드윈(Baldwin: 스티븐 마일러 분)이 있지만 크라이 베이비의 노래에 반해서 그를 좋아하고 있다. 어느날 라모나 할머니로부터 모터 싸이클을 선물받은 크라이 베이비는 그들이 주최하는 파티에 엘리슨을 초대하려고 그녀의 집으로 가지만 엘리슨은 크라이 베이비의 모터 싸이클에 올라 타고 얌전한 아가씨 엘리슨을 괴롭히던 정열은 크라이 베이비와 함께 타오르기 시작하는데...
My Brother's Wife
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.
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy
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.
Mother, Mother
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.
She Was Marked for Murder
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.
사이보그 유리시즈
Estelle Stone
A reclusive scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long term space mission. Since the scientist seems to lack all human emotion he is unable to program them into his android and an eccentric woman is hired to "educate" the robot on human behavior. In the end she falls in love... but is the robot or the Dr. Mr Right?
Velvet
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.
Born Beautiful
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.
How To Pick Up Girls!
Dana Greenberg
A shy guy gets fired for dating his boss’ girlfriend. Taking advantage of his situation he writes a book on how to pick up chicks and on the way finds his love.
Telethon
Dorothy Goodwin
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Murder on Flight 502
Mona Briarly
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Death Cruise
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.
An Echo of Theresa
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."
A Guide for the Married Man
Technical Adviser (Clara Brown)
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Kisses for My President
U.S. President Leslie McCloud
When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job as The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
무브 오버, 달링
Bianca Steele
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
The Caretakers
Lorna Melford
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Belle Sommers
Belle Sommers
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
케이프 피어
Peggy Bowden
강간 폭행 죄로 6년간 수감됐던 맥스 케이디(Max Cady : 로버트 미첨 분)는 석방되자 마자 샘 보든(Sam Bowden : 그레고리 펙 분)을 찾는다. 샘은 케이디의 유죄 판결에 결정적인 역할을 한 검사였다. 케이디는 샘에게 자신이 수감됐던 것에 대한 복수를 하겠다고 통고한다. 위험을 인지한 샘은 사립 탐정을 고용하기도 하고 경찰의 비호를 받으려고도 하지만 케이디는 불사조처럼 빠져나가며 점점 더 샘을 초조하게 압박할 따름이다. 케이디가 자신의 아내인 페기 보든(Peggy Bowden : 폴리 버겐 분)과 딸, 낸시 보든(Nancy Bowden : 로리 마틴 분)을 강간함으로써 복수를 하려는 것을 알아챈 샘은 케이디를 다시 교도소로 보내고자 하지만 그렇게 할 근거가 없어 무효화되고, 경찰 서장인 마크 더튼(Police Chief Mark Dutton : 마틴 발삼 분) 또한 케이디를 그 지역에서 추방함으로써 샘을 돕고자 하지만 별다른 효과를 발휘하지 못 한다. 절박해진 샘은 결국 케이디를 유인해 잡기 위해 아내와 딸을 케이프 피어 강의 요트로 보낸다. 케이디가 소리 없이 나타나 샘의 아내와 딸을 유린하려는 위기 일발의 순간 샘이 나타나 그들을 구하고자 한다.
브라보 요새의 탈출
Alice Owens
남북전쟁 직후에 남군들이 포로로 잡혀있는 북군의 요새, 이곳에서 탈출하는 남군들을 절대 놓치치 않는 악명높은 로퍼 대위(월리암 를덴)가 있었다. 어느 날 이곳에 대령의 딸 칼 (엘리노어 파커)가 나타나고 로퍼는 대단한 미모의 그녀에게 홀딱 반한다. 그러나 그녀는 포로로 잡혀있는 애인 마쉬를 탈출시키려고 온 것이다. 마침내 그들은 탈출을 감행하고, 로퍼는 그들을 추적하기 시작한다. 그들의 추적에는 성공하지만, 인디언들이 일행을 습격하면서 영화는 클라이막스로 향한다.
Arena
Ruth Danvers
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Fast Company
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.
Cry of the Hunted
Janet Tunner
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
더 스투지
Mary Turner
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Warpath
Molly Quade
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
That's My Boy
Betty 'Babs' Hunter
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm. He uses his athletic reputation and standing as #1 alumni contributor to pressure the coach to take Junior onto the team. In addition, he pays the tuition of Junior's financially needy classmate Bill Baker, a potential all-American, with the understanding that he will room with Junior and mentor him athletically and socially. Junior's initial efforts as quarterback prove disastrous and further complications arise when the room mates both fall in love with the same co-ed.
At War with the Army
Helen Palmer
Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.
Across The Rio Grande
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