As the first child of popular radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his young wife Frances, Candice was a news item months before her birth. She was born on 9 May 1946 in Beverly Hills, California and made her first public appearance as an infant. She married the French film director Louis Malle on 27 September 1980. and gave birth to daughter Chloe in 1985. Her husband Malle died from cancer at Thanksgiving 1995. She remarried, wedding New York real estate magnate and philanthropist Marshall Rose on 15 June 2000.