Candice Bergen decides to wait up for Santa Clause on Christmas Eve 1949.
“Let’s get one thing straight: I don’t want your pity. However, this photo of Charlie McCarthy and me in our matching feety pajamas neatly sums up my childhood. My father was a ventriloquist—on the radio—and the dummy he created was a cocky, charming character who went on to become an icon in 40s and 50s America. While technically an only child, I was always known—as a kid, at least—as ‘Charlie’s sister.’ Now I want your pity. Is it any wonder my early performances in film were referred to as ‘wooden’?
“This picture was one of many photo ops that people in the entertainment business were required to do for fan magazines to maintain ‘awareness.’ It shows the two of us from a Christmas layout taken at our home in Beverly Hills; I was four. The curse of having a wooden brother. That would not be reversed until some 30 years later when, playing Murphy Brown, I realized I was channeling Charlie.”
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Truman Capote's infamous Black and White Ball at New York’s Plaza Hotel on November 28th 1966. The masked ball which was labeled the "party of the century", was thrown in the honor of his dear friend Katharine Graham, whose husband died by suicide in 1961, leaving her to run the family media empire. The guest list contained 540 of his closest friends from affluent families, royalty, fashion designers, models, actors, writers, musicians and his famous "Swans".
Photos: 1. Capote with his favourite "swan" Lee Radziwill, 2. Interior designer Billy Baldwin (pictured on the right) with a fellow guest. 3. Princess Luciana Pignatelli, Peter Gimbel and Contessa Consuelo Crespi. 4. Capote chatting with guests. 5. Françoise de Langlade and Oscar de la Renta. 6. Guests dancing. 7. Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow. 8. Capote dancing with "swan" Gloria Guinness. 9. Candice Bergen dancing with a guest. 10. Capote with guest-of-honor Katharine Graham. 11. Truman socializing with guests.
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Lydia: Derek?
Derek: Yes?
Lydia: Seems Stiles is wearing a skating rink on a very important finger.
Stiles: Um, Your Honor, I'd really like to keep it...
Lydia, interrupting: Oh, my God, you're engaged?!
Stiles: Quiet.
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candice bergen's r.i.p. dress on murphy brown s04e17
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Candice Bergen, 1967. Photo portrait by Peter Basch.
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Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, and Orson Welles on the set of Catch-22, 1969.
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Happy birthday, Candice Bergen
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Candice Bergen photographed by Bert Stern, 1967
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Candice Bergen at home, Vogue, June 1, 1971
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