Candice Bergen
The daughter of famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, this cool blonde beauty grew up in the public eye as the "little sister" of Charlie McCarthy, her father's famous wooden dummy. Still in college when...
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05/08/1946
Beverly Hills, CA |
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| Left the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 after flunking art and opera; she ultimately received an honorary degree in 1992. |
| First female host of Saturday Night Live, on November 8, 1975. |
| Engaged in a well-publicized war of words in 1992 with Vice President Dan Quayle, who criticized her Murphy Brown character for having a child out of wedlock claiming it undermined tr |
| After winning her fifth Emmy for Murphy Brown, she took herself out of the running for future consideration. |
