Polly Bergen dead at 84: ‘First woman president of the U.S.A.,’ former mistress of Tony Soprano’s father Emmy Award-winning actress Polly Bergen — whose roles ranged from the first U.S.A. woman president in Kisses for My President to the former mistress of both Tony Soprano’s father and John F. Kennedy in the television hit series The Sopranos — died from "natural causes" on September 20, 2014, at her home in Southbury, Connecticut. The 84-year-old Bergen, a heavy smoker for five decades, had been suffering from emphysema and other ailments since the 1990s. "Most people think I was born in a rich Long Island family," she told The Washington Post in 1988, but Polly Bergen was actually born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930, to an impoverished family in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father was an illiterate construction worker while her mother got only as far as the third grade. The family...
- 9/20/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which ran for 777 performances on Broadway and won Mr. Busch a Tony nomination for Best Play. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die!, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Busch made his directorial debut with the film A Very Serious Person, which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won an honorable mention. His latest play The Divine Sister (see photo above) is currently playing Off-Broadway and is listed as a New York Times Critic pick, where it is also part of the Best Theatre of 2010. Given his impeccable taste, we've asked him to share his favorite holiday movies with ...
- 12/17/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Carol Hanzel Casting is a boutique-style full-service casting office for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and international theater, television, on-camera commercials, voiceovers, and film. Recent projects include the Broadway-optioned "Wanda's World," seen in 2008 at Off-Broadway's 45th Street Theater; "Reel to Real," a multimedia stage musical, directed by Tony nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett, that premiered in Huairou, China, and is now playing at the Edinburgh International Festival; the world premieres of the plays "The Good Counselor" and "Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods," both presented by New Jersey's Premiere Stages; and the world premieres of the regional musical hits "Cagney" and "Backwards in High Heels," both done at Florida Stage in West Palm Beach. Other career favorites include the Tony-nominated musical "Swing!" and the York Theatre Company's Off-Broadway musical "My Vaudeville Man"; the TV shows "Hi-5" (Discovery Kids and the Learning Channel) and "Wonder Pets" (Nickelodeon); and the feature film "A Very Serious Person,...
- 8/23/2010
- backstage.com
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