Polly Bergen

On stage 7 productions, 50 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Hermione Gingold , Billy DeWolfe , Harry Belafonte, Polly Bergen, Orson Bean, Nanci Crompton, Carleton Carpenter, Harry Mimmo, Elaine Dunn, Celia Lipton, James Jewell, Kay Medford, Lee Becker (Theodore), Imelda De Martin, Dorothy Dushock, Greb Lober, Illona Murai, Margot Myers, Gwen Neilson, Gloria Smith, Jimmy Albright, Hank Brunj…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Within a few weeks of the Broadway opening, Polly Bergen, Kay Medford, and Harry Mimmo left the revue; Bergen’s songs were given to Tony Bavaar and Judy Lynn, and Medford was replaced by Alice Pearce; no one replaced Harry Mimmo, which could have been a compliment (maybe he was irreplaceable) or an insult (if no one missed him); at any ra…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Five Daughters” (Hermione Gingold); “I’m Me” (Polly Bergen, Lois Bewley, Lynn Ross, Laurie Peters, Phyllis Newman); “Have You Heard the News?” (Hermione Gingold, Townspeople); “Polka/Mazurka” and “The Assembly Dance” (Townspeople, Officers); “A Perfect Evening” (Farley Granger, Polly Bergen); “As Long as There’s a Mother” (Hermi…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Wasn’t It a Simply Lovely Wedding?” (aka “Wedding Talk”) (Polly Bergen, Hermione Gingold, Ellen Hanley, Christopher Hewett, Ensemble); “A House in Town” (Hermione Gingold); “The Heart Has Won the Game” (Farley Granger); “I’m Me” (reprise) (Polly Bergen); “Dance” (James Mitchell, Lynn Ross, Officers); “Let’s Fetch the Carriage” (…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The plot closely followed Austen, and focused on both the relationship of the stubborn and independent Elizabeth Bennet (Polly Bergen) and the rich and arrogant Fitzwilliam Darcy (Farley Granger) and the attempts of her mother Mrs. Bennet (Hermione Gingold) to marry off Elizabeth and her four sisters. Some critics were unhappy that a few…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Blythe Danner, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Treat Williams, Polly Bergen, Marge Champion, Betty Garrett, Joan Roberts, Donald Saddler, Jane White, Carol Woods, Louis Zorich, Roxane Barlow, Carol Bentley, Erin Dilly, Kelli O’Haraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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