Polly Bergen

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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. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Polly Bergen. Born : 14th-Jul-1930

Movie Credits

A Guide for the Married Man

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Released : 25th-May-1967

Move Over, Darling

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.
Released : 19th-Dec-1963

Cape Fear

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Released : 12th-Apr-1962

At War with the Army

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.
Released : 31st-Dec-1950

Cry-Baby

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Released : 6th-Apr-1990

Cry of the Hunted

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Released : 8th-May-1953

A Very Serious Person

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.
Released : 1st-Jan-2006

Candles on Bay Street

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.
Released : 26th-Nov-2006

That's My Boy

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.
Released : 31st-May-1951

Escape from Fort Bravo

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Released : 4th-Dec-1953

Death Cruise

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.
Released : 30th-Oct-1974

The Caretakers

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Released : 21st-Aug-1963

The Stooge

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.
Released : 15th-Nov-1951

Struck by Lightning

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Released : 19th-Jun-2013

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

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.
Released : 19th-Feb-1993

Murder on Flight 502

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Released : 21st-Nov-1975

In the Blink of an Eye

Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
Released : 24th-Mar-1996

Arena

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Released : 24th-Jun-1953

Doris Day: It's Magic

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.
Released : 18th-Oct-1998

Warpath

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.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1951

Kisses for My President

A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Released : 21st-Aug-1964

Across The Rio Grande

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
Released : 14th-May-1949

The Lightning Incident

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
Released : 12th-Sep-1991

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

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.
Released : 31st-May-1989

The Helen Morgan Story

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Released : 16th-May-1957

Addicted to His Love

Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.
Released : 27th-Mar-1988

The Surrogate

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.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1995

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

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.
Released : 26th-Jan-1996

For Hope

The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Released : 17th-Nov-1996

Fast Company

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.
Released : 21st-May-1953

Telethon

The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Released : 6th-Nov-1977

The Million Dollar Face

Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Released : 12th-Mar-1981

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
Released : 25th-Aug-1995

The Men

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
Released : 25th-Aug-1950

Making Mr. Right

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1987

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
Released : 10th-Mar-1991

Leave of Absence

A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Released : 11th-May-1994

She Was Marked for Murder

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.
Released : 18th-Dec-1988

An Echo of Theresa

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."
Released : 15th-Jan-1973

My Brother's Wife

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.
Released : 17th-Dec-1989

Belle Sommers

A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Released : 30th-May-1962

Born Beautiful

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.
Released : 1st-Nov-1982

Velvet

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.
Released : 27th-Aug-1984

Mother, Mother

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.
Released : 6th-Jan-1989

How to Pick Up Girls!

The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1978

Champion

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Released : 9th-Apr-1949

TV Credits

Murder, She Wrote

Dr. Jocelyn Laird - An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Released : 30th-Sep-1984

Thriller

Suzy Hunter - Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
Released : 14th-Apr-1973

The Sopranos

Fran Felstein - The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
Released : 10th-Jan-1999

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self - The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Released : 10th-Sep-1950

The Love Boat

Maisie Nolan - Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Released : 24th-Sep-1977

Desperate Housewives

Stella Wingfield - Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
Released : 3rd-Oct-2004

Touched by an Angel

Stella Applegate - Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Released : 21st-Sep-1994

Hotel

Elizabeth Hastings - Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.
Released : 21st-Aug-1982

American Bandstand

Self - American Bandstand was an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances at 110. The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company.
Released : 5th-Aug-1957

The Merv Griffin Show

Self - The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
Released : 1st-Oct-1962

General Electric Theater

Susan Barry - General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Released : 1st-Feb-1953

Jake and the Fatman

Emma Julian - Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.
Released : 26th-Sep-1987

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rosemary - Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Released : 24th-Dec-1951

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Crystal Coe - A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1955

Twice in a Lifetime

Judge Deborah - Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
Released : 25th-Aug-1999

Baby Talk

Doris Campbell - Baby Talk is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 8, 1991 until May 8, 1992 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The show was loosely based on the popular Look Who's Talking movies and was adapted for television by Ed Weinberger. Amy Heckerling created original characters for the series while using key creative and script elements from Look Who's Talking, which she had written and directed. Weinberger served as executive producer during the first season, and was replaced by Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein in the second season.
Released : 8th-Mar-1991

The Hollywood Palace

Self - Singer / Sketch Actor - The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
Released : 4th-Jan-1964

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Self - Hostess - The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse is an American dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC from 1953 to 1955, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The show was hosted by Arlene Dahl, Anita Colby, and, finally, Polly Bergen
Released : 2nd-Oct-1953

Kraft Music Hall

- Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
Released : 8th-Oct-1958

The Dean Martin Show

- The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody."
Released : 16th-Sep-1965

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self - The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
Released : 5th-Oct-1956

Ellery Queen

Dina Carroll-Winer - Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Released : 11th-Sep-1975

Dr. Kildare

Janice Graham / Cathy Brandon - The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Released : 27th-Sep-1961

The Oscars

Self - An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Released : 19th-Mar-1953

The Jimmy Durante Show

Self - The Jimmy Durante Show is a 51-episode half-hour comedy/variety television program presented live on NBC from October 2, 1954 to June 23, 1956.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1954

Max Liebman Presents

- Max Liebman Presents, is an American television anthology series. A total of 28 episodes aired from 9/12/1954 to 6/9/1956 on the National Broadcasting Company.
Released : 12th-Sep-1954

The Blue Angel

Co-Host - A variety show set against the background of the Blue Angel night club in New York City.
Released : 6th-Jul-1954

Startime

- Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.
Released : 6th-Oct-1959

The Polly Bergen Show

Host - The Polly Bergen Show is a half-hour 18-episode comedy/variety show, starring then 27-year-old Polly Bergen, which aired on NBC in the 1957-1958 television season. The program is remembered for its impressive guest-star lineup as well as its closing theme song, "The Party's Over".The Polly Bergen Show alternated in the 9 p.m. EST Saturday time slot with the equally short-lived Club Oasis.
Released : 21st-Sep-1957

The Dick Clark Show

Self - The Dick Clark Show is an American musical variety show broadcast weekly in the United States on the ABC television network 7:30-8 PM on Saturdays from February 15, 1958 through September 10, 1960, sponsored by Beechnut Gum.
Released : 15th-Feb-1958

War and Remembrance

Rhoda Henry - War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Released : 13th-Nov-1988

The Winds of War

Rhoda Henry - Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
Released : 6th-Feb-1983

Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party

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Released : 13th-Sep-1957

The Bob Hope Show

Self - The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
Released : 9th-Apr-1950

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self - The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 20th-Jun-1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

Singer - The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 20th-Jun-1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self (archive footage) - The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 20th-Jun-1948

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest - Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1950

Burke's Law

Rachel Doucet - Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.
Released : 7th-Jan-1994

Commander in Chief

Kate Allen - Mackenzie Allen has a lot on her plate -- she has twin teenagers, a 6-year-old at home and an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female president of the United States. Before that happens, however; Mackenzie, who serves as vice president, has to decide whether or not to go against the dying wishes of the current president, who has asked her to step down and let someone "more appropriate" fill his shoes in the Oval Office. Not only does the president want her to resign, so does the entire party that elected her in the first place. But when the moment of truth arrives, Mackenzie isn't willing to be a mere footnote in history. Instead of allowing her detractors to keep her down, she decides to trust her instincts and accept the most powerful job in the world.
Released : 27th-Sep-2005

The Hollywood Palace

Self - The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
Released : 4th-Jan-1964

The Hollywood Palace

Self - Singer - The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
Released : 4th-Jan-1964

The Bell Telephone Hour

Self - “The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 1968 that showcased the best in Broadway, Classical, Concert, Jazz and Popular music each week. The series had its’ own house band appropriately named the “Bell Telephone Orchestra”. The show also had its’ own theme song being the “Bell Waltz” composed by “Donald Voorhees” who was also the show's Orchestra conductor. Some of the greatest violinists of the 1960’s performed on this show that aired in the old “Black & White” format. Some of these great violinists included “Erica Mornin”, “Isaac Stern", "Michael Rabin", "Ruggiero Ricci", "Yehudi Menuhin" and "Zino Francesacatti". From time to time some of the great singers and bandleaders of the 1960’s would perform on the show as well. Some of these were “Bing Crosby”, “Gordon MacRae”, “John Gary”, “Leslie Uggams”, “Mary Martin”, “Nelson Eddy”, “Patti Page” and “Roy Rogers”. The TV show followed on the heels of its’ predecessor with the same name on “NBC” radio that aired from 29 April 1940 to 1958 on Monday nights at 8 PM. The name of the show was derived from its’ Major sponsor “Bell Telephone Laboratories”. The TV version began airing on Friday nights at 8:30 PM once a month. It later was given it’s same time slot now airing every other week alternating with another show on the other weeks such as News shows and specials. The show time slot changed quite often over the years. In September 1960 it aired at 9 PM and in September 1961 it moved to 9:30 PM. In October 1963 it moved to Tuesday nights at 10 PM, September 1965 it moved to Sunday night at 6:30 PM and in September 1967 it made its' final move back to Friday night at 10 PM.
Released : 12th-Jan-1959

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Jennifer Randolph - Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
Released : 4th-Oct-1963

79 Park Avenue

Vera Keppler - A poor New York teenager of the mid-1930 is forced into prostitution despite sincere efforts to make a living and ultimately becomes the city's most famous madam.
Released : 16th-Oct-1977

What's My Line?

Self - Panelist - Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1950

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Released : 1st-Oct-1962

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee/Performer - The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Released : 1st-Apr-1956

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter - An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Released : 20th-Jan-1944

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter - The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
Released : 1st-Apr-1956

The Love Boat

Dana Pierce - Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Released : 24th-Sep-1977

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A Guide for the Married Man

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.Released : 25th-May-1967

Move Over, Darling

Cape Fear

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.Released : 12th-Apr-1962

At War with the Army

Cry-Baby

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.Released : 6th-Apr-1990

Cry of the Hunted

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.Released : 8th-May-1953

A Very Serious Person

Candles on Bay Street

That's My Boy

Escape from Fort Bravo

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.Released : 4th-Dec-1953

Death Cruise

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.Released : 30th-Oct-1974

The Caretakers

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.Released : 21st-Aug-1963

The Stooge

Struck by Lightning

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.Released : 19th-Jun-2013

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

Murder on Flight 502

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.Released : 21st-Nov-1975

In the Blink of an Eye

Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.Released : 24th-Mar-1996

Arena

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.Released : 24th-Jun-1953

Doris Day: It's Magic

Warpath

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.Released : 22nd-Nov-1951

Kisses for My President

A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.Released : 21st-Aug-1964

Across The Rio Grande

The Lightning Incident

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.Released : 12th-Sep-1991

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

The Helen Morgan Story

Addicted to His Love

Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.Released : 27th-Mar-1988

The Surrogate

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

For Hope

The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.Released : 17th-Nov-1996

Fast Company

Telethon

The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.Released : 6th-Nov-1977

The Million Dollar Face

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.Released : 25th-Aug-1995

The Men

Making Mr. Right

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.Released : 3rd-Apr-1987

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.Released : 10th-Mar-1991

Leave of Absence

A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.Released : 11th-May-1994

She Was Marked for Murder

An Echo of Theresa

My Brother's Wife

Belle Sommers

A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.Released : 30th-May-1962

Born Beautiful

Velvet

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.Released : 27th-Aug-1984

Mother, Mother

How to Pick Up Girls!

The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.Released : 3rd-Nov-1978

Champion

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.Released : 9th-Apr-1949

TV Credits

Murder, She Wrote

Dr. Jocelyn Laird - An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Released : 30th-Sep-1984

Thriller

The Sopranos

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Released : 25th-May-1967

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Released : 12th-Apr-1962

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Released : 6th-Apr-1990

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Released : 8th-May-1953

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Released : 4th-Dec-1953

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.
Released : 30th-Oct-1974

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Released : 21st-Aug-1963

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Released : 19th-Jun-2013

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Released : 21st-Nov-1975

Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
Released : 24th-Mar-1996

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Released : 24th-Jun-1953

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.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1951

A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Released : 21st-Aug-1964

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.
Released : 12th-Sep-1991

Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.
Released : 27th-Mar-1988

The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Released : 17th-Nov-1996

The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Released : 6th-Nov-1977

A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
Released : 25th-Aug-1995

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1987

A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
Released : 10th-Mar-1991

A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Released : 11th-May-1994

A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Released : 30th-May-1962

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.
Released : 27th-Aug-1984

The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1978

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Released : 9th-Apr-1949

Dr. Jocelyn Laird - An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Released : 30th-Sep-1984