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Frances Bergen, born
Frances Westerman (
September 14 1922 -
October 2 2006) was an
American actress and fashion model. She was the wife of famous
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress
Candice and Kris Bergen.
She was born in
Birmingham, Alabama to William and Lillie Mae Westerman. While in
New York City, she became a successful
John Robert Powers model. She was "the Chesterfield Girl" and "the Ipana Girl" in magazines and on billboards. As a Powers model she was known as
Frances Westcott.
In 1941, Frances met
Edgar Bergen when she was 19 years old, while attending a recording of one of his famous
radio programs with Charlie McCarthy.
Edgar Bergen was two decades older than she. All the same, they married on
June 28 1945. She had found the right person with Edgar, and together they built a loving and passionate relationship that was envy of Hollywood until Edgar's death in
1978 at age 75.
As an actress, Frances Bergen had supporting or minor roles in a number of
films. She made her debut in
Titanic (1953), after which she appeared in
Robert Z. Leonard's
Her Twelve Men, and
Douglas Sirk's
Interlude (1957).
During the 1958-1959
television season, Frances became the recurring love interest on the cult western show
Yancy Derringer as Madame Francine, the strong willed but beautiful owner of a members-only gambling house in New Orleans set in 1868.
Frances also made numerous other appearances on
television, with guest starring roles on
The Millionaire,
The Dick Powell Show,
Barnaby Jones,
MacGyver, and
Murder, She Wrote.
She returned to films in the 1980s, with small roles in
American Gigolo,
The Sting II,
The Muppets Take Manhattan,
The Morning After, and
Made in America, among others. She had a major part in
Henry Jaglom's independently made film
Eating (1990).
She also appeared on two episodes of
Murphy Brown, her daughter's hit show, including Part One of the
series finale in
1998. She dated actor
Craig Stevens after the death of his wife of many years,
Alexis Smith.
Frances Bergen died at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles of undisclosed causes on
October 2 2006, aged 84.
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