Jeanne Aubert

Jeanne Aubert passed away in 1988 and was interred in the Cimetière de Pantin in the Parisian suburb of Pantin. In January, 2005, Bergen joined the cast of Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt, a founding partner in the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. Although never a headline star, for the next thirty years her career was busy with numerous recordings, film and stage performances, and eventually roles on television. In 2003, she appeared in the movie View from the Top. She was part of a number of other shows in London, England and other cities throughout Europe. After Murphy Brown, Bergen has appeared in character roles in films, most notably Miss Congeniality as the sweet-yet-demented pageant host, Kathy Morningside. In 1935, she returned to her native France where she acted in several films during the ensuing two years. In 1937, she went back on the Paris stage, performing in musical varieties with the celebrated songstress Fréhel. His remarks caused a public discussion on family values which culminated in an episode where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments including Brown arranging for a truck load of potatoes to be dumped in front of Quayle's residence in retaliation.

Following her divorce Jeanne Aubert began working in Broadway musical comedies as well as making an appearance in the1934 East Coast film production "The Gem Of The Ocean". During his speech, he criticized the Murphy Brown character for ignoring the importance of fathers and bearing a child alone. In May of 1939, Nelson Morris survived the Hindenburg disaster. On May 19, 1992, then Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Eventually they moved to the United States and married but the marriage did not last. Although the show was a successful comedy, it tackled important issues: Murphy Brown became a single mother and later battled breast cancer. Morris used his connections to get to meet her and the two became involved. On Murphy Brown she played a tough television reporter.

Using the stage name Jane Aubert, in 1929, she made her motion picture debut in the silent film, "La Possession." Her film was seen by Nelson Morris of Chicago, Illinois a multi-millionaire whose family had made their fortune in meatpacking and who at the time was overseeing a meat processing operation in France. They had a daughter, Chloe Malle, and remained married until his death by cancer in 1995. Jeanne Aubert served as the first president of the JOCF of France. In 1981, she married French film director Louis Malle. In 1928 she helped organize the first female branch of the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC), a Roman Catholic apostolic organization for young people. On at least one occasion, Bergen dated Henry Kissinger. As a teenager, she was given voice and music lessons and at age eighteen appeared in an elaborate Mistinguett production at the Casino de Paris. Bergen was the first female guest host on Saturday Night Live.

At age five, little Marguerite began performing on stage at the Théâtre du Châtelet. She began her career as a fashion model, but soon began appearing as an actress in such films as Carnal Knowledge and Starting Over, for which she received an Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress. Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father she was pushed by her mother, a former flower girl, into show business. As a child she was often referred to as "Charlie McCarthy's Little Sister", which irritated her. Jeanne Aubert, (February 21, 1906 – March 6, 1988) was a French singer and actress. She was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Frances Westerman. Candice Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress best known for her starring role on the television sitcom Murphy Brown.