Heather Angel

Photograph of Heather Angel (http://www.britishpictures.com/godfrey/card37.htm). Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930, in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. Heather Angel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. She died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California. She also played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place from 1964 until 1965.

Her film appearances in the following years were few, but she returned to Hollywood to provide voices for the Walt Disney animated films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She was among the actresses considered and tested for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939), but despite being unsuccessful in securing this role, she was cast in such prestigious films as Pride and Prejudice (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), and two Alfred Hitchcock films, Suspicion (1941) and Lifeboat (1944). In 1937 she made her first appearance in the popular Bulldog Drummond series, in a role she would eventually play in five films. Over the next few years she played strong roles in such films asThe Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935), The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and The Bold Caballero.

Born in Oxford, England, Angel made her first film appearance with a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British film actress.