Polly Bergen: “Hand Signed Promo Photo”

£140.12

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Polly Bergen has hand signed this 5.5 x 7.5 black and white studio promo photo in blue ink. Showing signed of tape residue but overall very good condition. Bergen appeared in many film roles, most notably in the original Cape Fear (1962) opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. She had roles in threeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy films in the early 1950s: At War with the ArmyThat’s My Boy and The Stooge. Later roles included Mrs. Vernon-Williams in Cry-Baby, a John Waters film. Bergen received an Emmy award for her portrayal of singer, Helen Morgan, in the episode The Helen Morgan Story of the 1950s television seriesPlayhouse 90. Signed to Columbia Records, she enjoyed a successful recording career during this era, as well. In the 1950s she also was known as “The Pepsi Cola Girl,” having done a series of commercials for that product. She was a regular panelist on the CBS game show To Tell the Truth, during its original run. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here’s Hollywood. In 1963 Bergen co-starred with Doris Day and James Garner in the film comedy, Move Over, Darling. Garner’s character marries hers when he believes his long-lost wife (Day) to be deceased, only to have her turn up. Bergen earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Rhoda Henry, wife of Capt. “Pug” Henry (played by Mitchum), in two ABC miniseries, The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance. She starred in a 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the Belasco Theater and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She also appeared as Fran Felstein on HBO’s The Sopranos, the former mistress of Tony Soprano’s father, and former mistress of John F. Kennedy. From 2007 to 2009 Bergen had a guest role in Desperate Housewives as Lynette Scavo’s mother, Stella Wingfield, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. Bergen became a semi-regular cast member of 2006’s Commander-in-Chief as the mother of Mackenzie Allen, the President of the United States, played by Geena Davis. Bergen herself had once played the first female President of the United States, as President Leslie McCloud in the 1964 film, Kisses for My President. Another of her recent appearances came in CBS’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, Candles on Bay Street (2006), in which she played the assistant to a husband-and-wife team of veterinarians.

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