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    Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and...
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    the wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress Candice Bergen and film and television editor Kris Bergen. In 1932, her father died of...
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    was the famed dummy partner of American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Charlie was part of Bergen's act as early as high school, and by 1930 was attired in...
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    professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a ventriloquist, comedian, and actor. Bergen's paternal grandparents were Swedish immigrants...
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  • Bongo" by Sinclair Lewis; and Mickey and the Beanstalk, narrated by Edgar Bergen and based on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale. Though the film...
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    announced it would terminate its contract with Edgar Bergen at the end of the year. The remaining Bergen/McCarthy programs eschewed guest stars in favor...
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    circuit, and by the Americans The Great Lester, Frank Byron Jr., and Edgar Bergen. Bergen, together with his favorite figure Charlie McCarthy, hosted a radio...
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  • episode, the Waltons listen to Edgar Bergen and puppet / dummy Charlie McCarthy's radio program (in tribute to Bergen, who played Grandpa Walton in the...
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    ventriloquism and doing more to promote the art form than anyone since Edgar Bergen. Dunham was born on April 18, 1962, in Dallas, Texas. When he was three...
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    javelin thrower Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist Edgar Berlanga (born 1997), American boxer Edgar Bogardus (1927–1958)...
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    show premiered in prime time on CBS in January 1956 and was hosted by Edgar Bergen. The show lasted in this form until March 1957. In September of that...
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    from left: Ronald Reagan, Nick Adams, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Rooney, Edgar Bergen, Jack Carson, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Thompson, Dean Jones. Seated, from left...
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  • Samuel Goldwyn. The movie, which features Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen...
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  • DeLuise, James Coburn, Cloris Leachman, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Edgar Bergen (in his final film appearance before his death), Orson Welles, Carol...
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  • with on Pollack), unfolds from the perspective of Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen's famous and hugely popular wooden puppet. Other long-time adaptations...
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  • author Edgar Bergen (1903–1978), American actor and radio performer Frances Bergen (1922–2006), American actress and model Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1846...
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    1943. The program was short-lived, however, as he was overshadowed by Edgar Bergen. Winchell also created Ozwald, a character that resembled Humpty Dumpty...
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    movie-star salary of $5,000 per week. He joined ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour for weekly...
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    audience may have been listening to The Chase and Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen on NBC and tuned in to "The War of the Worlds" during a musical interlude...
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  • escape together in a chariot, with Bergen and McCarthy in pursuit. W. C. Fields as Larsen E. Whipsnade Edgar Bergen as Himself and the characters Charlie...
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  • It featured Disney as host, with Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (who appeared on radio for Coke), and other celebrities...
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    of his adolescence", being heavily influenced by radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the early television puppets of Burr Tillstrom on Kukla, Fran and...
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    from left: Ronald Reagan, Nick Adams, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Rooney, Edgar Bergen, Jack Carson, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Thompson, Dean Jones. Seated, from left:...
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  • Belushi (1949–1982) William Bendix (1906–1964) Jack Benny (1894–1974) Edgar Bergen (1903–1978) and Charlie McCarthy Milton Berle (1908–2002) Ray Bolger...
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  • Rhineland-Palatinate Bergen, North Holland Bergen aan Zee, part of the municipality of Bergen, North Holland Bergen, Limburg Bergen op Zoom Bergen, Minnesota Bergen County...
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    (1935) The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936) Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett...
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  • the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964, Burl Ives) (produced as Videocraft) The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show (1965) The Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966, James...
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  • Mosher left the agency in 1942 and moved to Hollywood to write for the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio show. Connelly soon followed him. In the mid-1940s...
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    (1935) The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936) Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett...
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    children and adults. Ventriloquism is also returning to radio in the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy style.[citation needed] In 1831, the Presbyterian...
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