Polly Bergen

Inquiring reader: I featured this post on Jane Austen Today on November 3, but I loved the history of the back story so much that I wanted to publish the post on this blog as well: Seen on the blogosphere is this quote from Theater Mania about the 1958-1959 season: “ One of the season’s short-lived shows was First Impressions, a musical version of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, in which Polly Bergen took over the lead role of Elizabeth Bennett three weeks before opening. “I replaced Gisele MacKenzie and had to learn the score very fast,” she told me. “Farley Granger [who played ... Read Full Story

Seen on the blogosphere is this quote from Theater Mania about the 1958-1959 season: " One of the season's short-lived shows was First Impressions, a musical version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, in which Polly Bergen took over the lead role of Elizabeth Bennett three weeks before opening. "I replaced Gisele MacKenzie and had to learn the score very fast," she told me. "Farley Granger [who played Mr. Darcy] and Hermione Gingold [who played Mrs. Bennett] were not singers, so I carried the vocal load of the show. It was a vicious dog-eat-dog atmosphere." The action took place in the early 19th Century, ... Read Full Story

Polly Bergen is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. She is a convert to Judaism. She came out publically with the story that she had an abortion. ... Read Full Story

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