1. Frances Bergen was an American actress and fashion model.
10 Facts About Frances Bergen
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Frances Bergen was the wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress Candice Bergen and film and television editor Kris Bergen.
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In 1932, her father died of tuberculosis, when Frances was ten years old.
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Frances Bergen made her debut in Titanic, after which she appeared in Robert Z Leonard's Her Twelve Men, and Douglas Sirk's Interlude.
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Frances Bergen was featured on a 1956 record, The Beguiling Miss Frances Bergen, accompanied by accordionist Art Van Damme.
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Frances Bergen returned to films in the 1980s, with small roles in American Gigolo, The Sting II, The Star Chamber, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Hollywood Wives, The Morning After, and Made in America.
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Frances Bergen had a major part in Henry Jaglom's independently made film Eating.
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Frances Bergen appeared on two episodes of Murphy Brown, her daughter's hit show, including Part One of the series finale in 1998.
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In 1941, Frances Westerman met Edgar Bergen after a radio program when he was 38 and she was 19.
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On October 2,2006, aged 84, Frances Bergen died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of undisclosed causes following "a prolonged illness".