Here is an excerpt from a Washington Post interview of Candice Bergen.
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Beauty “is not nothing,” says Bergen, attired in navy and fuchsia, J.Crew and Armani. “It’s to be dealt with. Nobody ever thinks of that. It’s often the elephant in the room, and you have to work to put people at ease.” The noted ventriloquist Edgar Bergen cautioned his daughter: “You know, Candy, it’s the beautiful women who commit suicide. It’s the beautiful women who struggle in life.”
Thanks, Dad. But she understood that he spoke from experience: “I mean, he dated Ava Gardner.”
She listened. “It’s harsh,” she says. “But I did exactly what he told me. I pursued my other interests, I wrote and I photographed. I never asked for a mirror on the set. Ever. I’m the only female or male that I’ve seen who didn’t care. I mean, once your makeup is done, that’s it. I don’t have much vanity, though more as I get older.”