Polly Bergen
Nascimento : 1930-07-14, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Morte : 2014-09-20
História
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
Na trama, o adolescente Carson Phillips quer realizar o sonho de se tornar um jornalista de sucesso e editor-chefe da revista literária The New Yorker, mas morre atingido por um raio. A partir desse fato, ele conta em flashbacks sua empreitada de chantagear outros estudantes de sua escola para entrar na equipe de sua revista literária de colégio e ajudá-lo a realizar seu sonho.
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 sonha em cursar faculdade de artes, mas não tem condições financeiras para bancar os estudos. Ela encontra uma oportunidade quando um casal oferece bancar todos os custos com seus estudos, incluindo moradia e alimentação em troca de seu útero para gerar um filho. Amy aceita, mas logo começa a desconfiar que está sendo monitorada por câmeras de televisão.
In New York in 1995 Dr. Richard Jacks is a creator of perfumes. Thus he spends his days inventing new colorful and well smelling potions and certainly caring for his girlfriend Sarah Carver. But when he discovers that his greatgrandfather, called Dr. Jekyll, was a scientist with revoluntionary discoveries, he tries to follow the footsteps of his ancestor and creates more and more delicate potions until one of them converts him into a spectacular superwoman: Helen Hyde. Knowing that Richard has no clue of her existence Helen enforces a professional career at the back of her "creator".
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
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.
Carol
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
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
Lá vive Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, um bad boy que é líder de um grupo. Ele é conhecido como "Cry-Baby" em virtude de chorar apenas por um olho, mas agora está apaixonado por Allison Vernon-Williams, uma jovem rica que é criada pela avó, Mrs. Vernon-Williams, que considera "Cry-Baby" um delinquente juvenil e não quer vê-lo junto da neta. Além disto, Baldwin, o namorado de Allison que é líder dos "quadrados", está totalmente contra "Cry-Baby" e o resto dos delinquentes juvenis, assim lidera uma guerra santa contra eles. Isto gera pancadaria e vandalismo e os jovens delinquentes são considerados culpados pelo caos, mas são liberados pelo juiz, com exceção de "Cry-Baby", que é mandado para um reformatório.
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
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?
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
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.
Dorothy Goodwin
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
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.
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)
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
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.
Bianca Steele
Cinco anos depois do dia em sua esposa Ellen (Doris Day) desapareceu no mar depois de um acidente de avião, o marido e advogado Nicholas (James Garner) consegue que ela seja declarada legalmente morta, se casa novamente e vai em lua de mel para Monterey com a nova esposa Bianca (Polly Bergen). Na mesma manhã, Ellen chega em casa depois de ser resgatada pela Marinha numa ilha deserta e segue para tentar impedir que a lua de mel aconteça. Nick, ainda apaixonado por Ellen, gosta de revê-la, mas descobre que ainda não pode dar a notícia a Bianca, enquanto Ellen também tem dificuldades para contar aos filhos que ela é sua mãe. Vai ficar complicado. (e 14)
Lorna Melford
Narra as provações dos doentes mentais e seus cuidadores em uma enfermaria superlotada de um hospital. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Belle Sommers
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Peggy Bowden
Após cumprir pena Max Cady (Robert Mitchum), um perigoso psicopata, pretende se vingar de Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), um advogado que testemunhou decisivamente para a sua condenação. Extremamente frio e calculista, ele planeja se vingar do advogado e da sua família.
Alice Owens
Capitão Roper (William Holden) é o guardião de um campo de prisioneiros gerenciado pela União. Uma misteriosa mulher chamada Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) chega ao acampamento, a fim de libertar os prisioneiros confederados, e as coisas se complicam quando Carla e o capitão começam a se apaixonar.. Em um esforço para recapturar os fugitivos, Roper tem um encontro com um grupo de índios Mescalero. Para sobreviver, ele terá que se unir com seus prisioneiros e lutar contra os índios.
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
Em mais um filme da dupla Martin e Lewis, Bill Martin (Dean Martin) é um comediante sem sucesso que, para inovar seu show, coloca o comparsa Ted Rogers (Jerry Lewis) na platéia para interagir com ele durante a apresentação. Mas, rapidamente, Ted começa a se tornar a estrela do espetáculo.
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.
Betty 'Babs' Hunter
Junior Jackson (Jerry Lewis) é o tímido filho único de Jack "Terremoto" (Eddie Mayehoff), uma lenda do futebol americano. Temendo que Junior seja um fracasso como desportista, seu pai contrata Bill Baker (Dean Martin), um grande jogador, para treiná-lo e fazer dele um homem. Porém, Junior se mostra muito inseguro, o que dificulta tudo, mas independente de qualquer pagamento Baker se torna amigo de Junior e decide fazer qualquer coisa para que ele supere suas limitações.
Helen Palmer
Alvin Corwin está na base da hierarquia, e vai de um acidente a outro em um campo de treinamento do exército na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Dois ex-companheiros de boates agora estão alistados no Exército. O Sargento Puccinelli está acima de seu ex-parceiro, o Soldado Korwin. Puccinelli está tentando desesperadamente se transferir de seu trabalho maçante para o serviço ativo no exterior. Enquanto isso, tudo que Korwin quer é um passe para ver sua esposa e seu novo bebê. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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
