Polly Bergen Sterling Silver XL Retro Atomic Modernist Brooch Pin Circa 1960's

Measurements: 2.5"H x 4"W x .25"Thick (6.35cm x 10.16cm x .64cm)

Markings: Sterling © PB

Weight: 15.6g

Another extra large and interesting sterling silver brooch.  

Elegant sterling silver brooch featuring a fluid, sculptural modernist form with sweeping curved lines and tapered points. The design has an abstract organic shape that may suggest a stylized bird, wave, crescent, or ribbon in motion. Its smooth polished silver surface and minimalist openwork silhouette give it a clean mid-century modern feel.

The brooch has a graceful dimensional shape with a long pin stem visible across the back, making it suitable for wearing on a jacket, scarf, lapel, or dress. A beautiful statement piece for collectors of sterling silver, modernist jewelry, and abstract sculptural brooches.

Polly Bergen appeared in many film roles, most notably in the original Cape Fear (1962) opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. She had roles as the romantic interest in three Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy films in the early 1950s: At War with the Army, That's My Boy, and The Stooge. She was featured in a number of Westerns during the 1950s, including Warpath, Arena, and Escape from Fort Bravo. She starred in the horse-racing comedy Fast Company; she starred as the first female United States President in Kisses for My President; and as the wife of James Garner in the romantic comedy Move Over, Darling, which also starred Doris Day. Bergen's later roles included Mrs. Vernon-Williams in Cry-Baby, a John Waters film.

Bergen received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of the true-life title subject in the episode "Helen Morgan" of the 1950s television series Playhouse 90. Signed to Columbia Records, she also enjoyed a successful recording career during this era. She recorded an album in 1957 titled, Bergen Sings Morgan, which included the song "Bill".

In the 1950s, she became known as "the Pepsi Cola Girl", having done a series of commercials for this product.

She was a regular panelist on the game show To Tell the Truth during its original run. She was an occasional panelist and appeared three times as the mystery guest on What's My Line?. She appeared on the interview program Here's Hollywood. She earned two Emmy Award nominations for her role as Rhoda Henry, wife of Captain "Pug" Henry (played by Robert Mitchum), in two miniseries: The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance.

Bergen starred in a 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Belasco Theater and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical.[4] In 2003, she starred at the same theatre in Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks opposite Mark Hamill in a role she took over from Rue McClanahan.

In 2004, Bergen played Fran Felstein on HBO's The Sopranos, the fictional former mistress of Johnny Soprano and John F. Kennedy. From 2007 to 2011, Bergen had a guest role in Desperate Housewives as Stella Wingfield, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination.

She was a semi-regular cast member of Commander-in-Chief (2006) as the mother of Mackenzie Allen, the fictional president of the United States played by Geena Davis. Bergen had once played the first female president of the United States herself in Kisses for My President (1964). Another late appearance came in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Candles on Bay Street (2006), in which she played the assistant to a husband-and-wife team of veterinarians.

In 1965, Bergen created the Polly Bergen Company cosmetics line, also known as Oil of the Turtle. She also created lines of jewelry and shoe brands, and wrote three books on beauty.[3] She had retail stores in Knoxville and Gatlinburg bearing her name. - Bio Courtesy of Wikipedia