Background
Candice Bergen was born on May 9, 1946 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. She is a daughter of Edgar and Frances (Westerman) Bergen.
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Candice Bergen was born on May 9, 1946 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. She is a daughter of Edgar and Frances (Westerman) Bergen.
She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
Candice Bergen has been in movies, and very social on the Hollywood scene, for over thirty years. For a while, she was the companion to innovative producer Bert Schneider. She was in a few classy pictures, like Carnal Knowledge (71, Mike Nichols) and The Cron (66, Sidney Lumet). But she was taken for granted as a pretty piece of female furnishing.
She was the lesbian in The Group; with Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles (66, Robert Wise); as a pretentious fashion model in Vivre pour Vivre (67, Claude Leloueh); The Magus (68, Guy Green); Getting Straight (70, Richard Rush); Soldier Blue (70, Ralph Nelson); Carnal Knowledge; The Hunting Parti/ (71, Don Medford); T.R. Baskin (71, Herbert Ross); 11 Harrowhouse (74, Aram Avakian); and Bite the Bullet (75, Richard Brooks). There was a flare of humor in her entertaining duel with Sean Connery in 7'lie Wind and the Lion (75, |ohn Milius). But there was nothing to be done with The Domino Principle (77, Stan- lev Kramer); A Night Full of Rain (78, Lina Wertmuller); or Olivers Story (78. John korty).
But suddenlv, in Starting Over (79, Alan J. Pakula), she was hilarious, not least when bursting into song. She got a supporting actress nomination for Rich and Famous (81, George Cukor)—but few noticed or saw the continuity of humor. By then, Bergen was one of the few American actresses fit for 1930s comedy.
In the eighties, as she neared the ominous age of forty, Bergen’s career declined. She was redundant as photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White (Bergen is herself a photographer) in Gandhi (82, Richard Attenborough), and she was stranded in Stick (85, Burt Reynolds). By then, she had nowhere to so but television: Guinevere in the awful Arthur the King (85, Clive Donner); quite believable in Murder: By Reason of Insanity (85, Anthony Page); and driven to play Sydney Biddle Barrows in Mayflower Madam (87, Lou Antonio).
Whereupon, magic happened. It’s not that Muqihy Brown (88-omvards) was so great a show. But it was a showcase for Bergen's wit and character. As Republican politicians blundered into challenging the show’s mild liberalism, so Murphy Brown became a figurehead. Bergen won Emmies in 1989 and 1990, and the show played its small part in the 1992 election.
In 1980 she married Louis Malle. In 1995 he died. They had a daughter, Chloé Françoise. In 2000 he married Marshall Rose.