Heroine of the Month: Constance Bergen
Talent alone will not get you a successful career in Hollywood. Luck plays an important part as well. Constance Bergen is a case in point. A singer who came to Hollywood to make it big she started out in B-Westerns like Big Boy Rides Again (1935), staring Guinn “Big Boy” Williams.
After a small part in the Astaire/ Rogers musical Follow The Fleet (1936) she got her big break, a supporting role in Petrified Forest (1936). Unfortunately most of her footage was cut out of the film. After this bit of bad luck, her next role was in the Stage and Screen serial The Black Coin (1936), playing the daughter of a shipping company owner, who’s business is secretly being used by international spies.
The remainder of her career consisted of small parts in Westerns like Too Much Beef (1936) and High Wide and Handsome (1937). She also played a blackmailing seductress in the exploitation film Fools of Desire (1941) Her last known film credit was playing a nurse in the Lon Chaney, Jr. horror film Man Made Monster (1941)
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