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Bergen appeared in many film roles, most notably in the original "Cape Fear" (1962) opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. She had roles as the romantic interest in three Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy films in the early 1950s: "At War with the Army", "That's My Boy" and "The Stooge". She was featured in a number of Westerns during the 1950s, including "Warpath", "Arena" and "Escape from Fort Bravo". She starred in the horse racing comedy "Fast Company", as the first female commander-in-chief in "Kisses for My President", and as the wife of James Garner in the romantic comedy "Move Over, Darling", also starring Doris Day. Bergen's later roles included Mrs. Vernon-Williams in "Cry-Baby", a John Waters film.