Frances Bergen

Model and actress who married the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and was the mother of the actress Candice Bergen. Born Frances Westerman in Birmingham, Ala., she moved to Los Angeles with her mother after her father died of tuberculosis. The birth of her first child, Candice, was headline news in 1946. The Bergens had a son, Kris, born in 1962, who also survives, along with a granddaughter, Chloe Malle, Candice Bergen’s daughter with the filmmaker Louis Malle. Edgar Bergen died in 1978 at 75.