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Candice Bergen
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Cigars
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Nude pics and clips at MrSkin.com

  • Miscellaneous information
              •  video, youtube, when?
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "I started smoking", Playboy, Dec. '89
              •  "At 14, Candice spent a term at Montesano school in Switzerland and stunned her parents when she smoked cigarettes and ordered Bloody Marys", People Magazine, Dec. 2, '91
              •  no - "I don't smoke and rarely drink", Cosmopolitan, Oct. '93
              •  cigar - candid shot smoking cheroot, Cigar Aficionado, Summer '95, p. 149
              •  "I pulled out a pack of Marlboros and the obligatory Zippo that everyone had in those days and lit my Marlboro, and I ordered a bloody mary. My parents just went ashen. So we had a lot of talk that Christmas, and it was suggested that I might want to discontinue smoking and drinking in my fourteenth year", US Weekly, Apr. 24, '00
              •  "said she drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes at the age of 14 to 'get it out of the way early'", Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 5, '05
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • cigar, 23k

  • TV/Movies she smokes in:


    Ingrid van Bergen
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Ingrid van Bergen at MrSkin.com
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • dangling, 13k
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  • small, accepting a light, Town Without Pity (1961), 9k
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  • holding, Rächer, Der (1960), 26k
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  • dragging, Bumerang (1960), 15k
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  • posed, holder, 141k

  • TV/Movies she smokes in:


    Polly Bergen
  • Quit = Probably has
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "I started smoking when I was fourteen to look older", "emotionally, I don't want to quit smoking", "Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does" by Polly Bergen, '74
              •  quit - "quit smoking two years ago", website, Jul. 25, '00
              •  quit - "'I'd been a very heavy smoker at that time [in 1968], and I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice I wouldn't even sing in the bathtub!' But now, 32 years later, she's at it again singing, that is...'About a year and a half ago, a friend sent some tapes of me, and I watched them. Surprise! I was better than I thought I'd been. I hadn't smoked in six or eight months then, so I called my manager, and he said go to a teacher and see if you can get your equipment back' ", where?, Oct. 9, '00
              •  quit - "'You know, I smoked for 50 years,' Bergen laughs in her famed, smokey tones. 'Thats part of why I stopped singing. But I finally managed to quit. It wasnt a fear of dying, it was a fear of living and being incapacitated'", where?, Oct. 10, '00
              •  quit - "I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't stopped smoking two years ago", where?, Oct. 17, '00
              •  quit - "50 years of chain-smoking, compounded by stress, took their toll. Ms. Bergen developed emphysema, pneumonia and near-crippling arterial blockages in her legs. Hospitalized for months, she felt old and frightened. 'The truth is, I never wanted to quit smoking,' she said, flicking her hand as if it still held a cigarette. 'I loved smoking. The thing that made me stop was not the realization that I would die, but that I would live and be incapacitated.' Cigarettes had destroyed her singing voice, or so she thought", New York Times, Mar. 25, '01
              •  "She was a chain smoker for 50 years. 'I was asked maybe 30 years ago which I wanted - to be able to do another chorus of 'Night and Day' or to keep smoking,' she said candidly. 'I chose smoking'", Post-Gazette (Pittsburg), Jul. 1, '01
              •  quit - "Polly Bergen's singing career went up in smoke - cigarette smoke. 'I was a very heavy smoker, and I was either not capable or not interested in quitting,' Bergen said recently from her New York City home, while preparing for her upcoming show in Tucson. 'So I quit singing instead.'...She finally pounded out her last cigarette in 1999. 'I ultimately had to quit smoking because I discovered that it wouldn't kill me, but it would cripple me,' she said. 'Dying, I wasn't afraid of, but being an invalid scared me. So I quit after 50 years...So there I was singing along with this tape, and I was amazed that in a very short period of time after quitting smoking, the voice had as much clarity as it did' ", Tucson Weekly, Feb. 6, '03
              •  quit - "For 30 years, from 1969 to 1999, the husky-voiced Bergen did a lot of showing up for work without singing a note. Excessive smoking and respiratory problems, complicated by other heath issues, had forced her to stop singing... Though she had managed to stop smoking, she still couldn't sing 'more than two notes on a single breath'", Tucson Citizen, Feb. 13, '03
              •  quit - "Chain-smoking for 50 years took its toll; Bergen didn't find her voice again until 1999, when she kicked the habit...'I realized that smoking would not kill me, that smoking would leave me a cripple because of vascular problems in my legs,' she said. 'That came as a gigantic shock to me'...Following surgery on her legs and three weeks on an oxygen machine, she stubbed out her last cigarette", Knox News, Mar. 21, '03
              •  "'I was a very heavy smoker. I mean, a very heavy smoker, since I was a child. It was a way to look older and sophisticated I got very badly addicted to it and didnt want to quit really...I remember a really stupid quote of mine that people come back at me all the time with And that is: 'I had a choice of quitting smoking or singing another chorus of 'Night and Day,' and I chose to continue smoking. And I quit singing.' And it was a decision that I regretted from that day forward...Every time I saw another singer on stage, Id sit there and IdId want it to be me. But I just couldnt do it because I couldnt give up smoking'...Finally, enough was enough. Two years ago, she quit smoking and went to expert vocal coach Trish McCaffrey to see if she could make a comeback", website
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  shown smoking in production photos, Cape Fear (1961) DVD, c. '61
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • Lady Against the Odds (1992) (TV), 23k
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  • Lady Against the Odds (1992) (TV), 22k
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  • My Brother's Wife (1989) (TV), holding, 39k
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  • receiving a light, 22k
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  • holder, 27k
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  • posed, holding, May '52, 158k
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  • preparing to light up, 79k
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  • lighting, 97k
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  • posed, holding, May '52, 153k

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