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Candice Patricia Bergen, 79
Born May 9, 1946, the beloved American actress won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979) and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 16, 2025 1:34 AM |
On September 27, 1980, Bergen married French film director Louis Malle. They had one child, a daughter named Chloe Françoise, in 1985. The couple were married until Malle's death from cancer on Thanksgiving Day in 1995.
She was married to New York real estate magnate and philanthropist Marshall Rose from 2000 to his death on February 15, 2025 from Parkinson's disease.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 10, 2025 2:35 AM |
Candace is reportedly worth $50 million.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 10, 2025 2:35 AM |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
WHET your brother Charlie?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 10, 2025 2:42 AM |
"Hppy bday"! (our lips aren't moving...)
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 10, 2025 2:47 AM |
I sent her a bottle of Jean Nate and a nice blouse.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 10, 2025 2:58 AM |
You’d never know she had a personality until she hosted SNL in the 70s. She’s loose and unguarded with that cast. It changed her life and career.
Murphy Brown is a tough watch now. Pretty corny. It was fun for the time.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 10, 2025 3:06 AM |
You can watch her become an actor by watching films from her early career. She was AWFUL in The Sand Pebbles, one of her first. She improved a bit by Carnal Knowledge. She was one of the first nepo baby who learned her craft on screen. She was worth the wait.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 10, 2025 3:08 AM |
I still love her as Lakey in the group. Cool elegance. And a lesbian!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 10, 2025 3:13 AM |
I thought she was so out of place in Ghandi. For me, she just didn't fit and took me out of the movie. I'm sure there were other actresses who would have blended better.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 10, 2025 3:14 AM |
She IS Candice Bergen!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 10, 2025 3:17 AM |
She's only 79? It's like she's been around for ever and ever. Wasn't she on the cover of Vogue in 1958? She should be at LEAST 85 by now.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 10, 2025 3:35 AM |
[quote]Murphy Brown is a tough watch now. Pretty corny. It was fun for the time.
I wish it held up better, r6, but there are still some great moments. When I watched it again I thought, well, it's amiable.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 10, 2025 3:44 AM |
R12: "amiable". That's why I LOVE DL!
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 10, 2025 3:51 AM |
I watched Murphy Brown and thought she did well. It was the first sitcom that I can remember which alluded to politics. Funny how Dan Quayle seems so quaint now.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 10, 2025 3:57 AM |
I think she's a pretty good comedian. She is even funny talking about her crappy performances and her "Shelley Winters wig" in "The Domino Principle." Her own hair looked flawless in 1985.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 10, 2025 4:13 AM |
R14 He was right.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 11, 2025 1:28 AM |
She's better than ever. Hey hey hey.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 11, 2025 6:29 AM |
[quote] WHET your brother Charlie?
R3 Charlie McCarthy is in the Smithsonian. He will probably be tossed in a fireplace by “He Who Must Be Obeyed” because he looks too British.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 11, 2025 7:09 AM |
2 long-term marriages. Good for her!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 11, 2025 7:52 AM |
In my childhood, she epitomised American glamour to me after I read in one of my mother’s women’s magazines during her Murphy Brown era that Candice Bergen picked up Louis Malle at the airport wearing a fur coat with nothing underneath and after setting off a metal detector she some awkward explaining to do to security.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 13, 2025 8:25 PM |
R24 A coworker and I used to recite that and we could never get through without laughing.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 15, 2025 10:08 PM |
Any relation to Polly Bergen?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 16, 2025 1:34 AM |
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