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>>Q: You know you have a, a body of work,
a list of movies that's real interesting because
they're many movies people never heard of
>>Candice Bergen: [laughter] Oh?
>>Yeah.
>>You mean the ones for all that money in Spain and so forth?
>>Yeah, no, you did a lot of traveling.
>>Yes well I, I, I
of course, I have some regrets about the performances
and the movies themselves that I did
but on the other hand, I have no regrets about the traveling
and for the first five or six years
I took movies almost exclusively on that basis.
Of course, taking a movie with Steve McQueen and Robert Wise in Taiwan
was not what one would call a career mistake but
>>Alright, 'Sand Pebbles,' second movie, right?
Was it your second movie? >>Yeah
>>How were you in that?
>>I didn't embarrass myself in 'The Sand Pebbles,' oddly enough.
It's, it's as I went on, [laughing] that sort of thing
>>What 's the worst performance for you in a movie,
a kind of personal academy award for worst performance by you?
>>Oh God, there would be so many and yet
>>So many?
>>I suppose, in combination with
the sort of grotesqueness of the movie itself,
you probably couldn't do any worse than me in
'The Adventurers,' for example
or me in 'Hunting Party'
or 'The Domino Principle' with my Shelley Winters wig.
I mean there's, oh, I could go on and on.
>>Of course, one might ask, aside from travel,
why did you take these, these movies or
>>Well, uh one might, and one would answer >>One has, yes [laughter]
>>that one's agent suggested that it was the best of what was around
and that uh you couldn't beat the money
and then one leaves one's [laughing] agent a few years later.
>>The movie, 'The Group,' which is the first time
most of us saw you in movies, because it was your first movie,
were you considering yourself
as someone who was going to be a great actress or were you
doing this because you were Bergen's daughter? I mean is that
>>I think I was in the movie because being someone's daughter
didn't quite get you in a movie of that kind.
I think it was because I looked a certain way and I modeled
when I was in college because I wanted to support myself.
>>Cool blonde, is that
>>It's princess, I think is what they call it, [laughs] yes.
>>You describe your feelings toward your dad, Edgar Bergen,
as a, it was great love affair for you.
>>Yeah, he was my hero.
>>In the house in Bel Air,
Charlie would be on one knee?
>>Yeah
>>You would be on the other?
>>Yeah
>>Dad's hand would be on the back of your neck?
>>That's right, yes
>>making your mouth move and making Charlie's mouth move
and giving you both lines.
>>Yes, that's right.
>>I think the important thing here is who got the better lines.
>>[laughs] Well, I got pretty good ones.
>>Did you?
>>Yes, since he was writing for both of us, he gave me some pretty good lines.
>>Tell us the truth about you and Charlie. Did you ever want to,
you know, take him and burn him or uh chop him up or
>>I think I may have had fantasies when I was a tiny little girl
in that direction, but I haven't had any for
the last, I don't know, 7 or 8 years.
>>Mm-hm, that's fairly healthy. [laughter] You haven't had any lately.
Tell us about your husband. How did you meet?
>>We met now and then at parties and then he called and we had lunch
for about six hours and uh, and it was uh
>>Was it all wrapped up at the lunch?
>>I, I think so, yes it seemed,
I think both of us had given up and we spent the lunch talking about
the impossibility of [laughing] relationships
but it's behind that.
>>Can we project ahead? Let's play this game here
you know 20 years, 30 years, 40 years ahead.
Do you see yourself as a
a Ruth Gordon in the making or a, or what?
>>Well, first of all I see myself as not being dead.
I'd be really happy if I'm just alive
because I think that's already a lot to ask for.
You know, if I could just hold my life together
the way it is now, I'd be way [laughing] ahead of the game.