#Edgar Bergen

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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy at Universal Pictures to appear in a picture.

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Muppet Fact #1071

Edgar Bergen convinced Fozzie to try out ventriloquism.

Source:

The Muppet Show. Episode 207: Edgar Bergen. October 10, 1977.

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Gene Tierney, Edgar Bergen, Gary Cooper inaugurating shortwave program for soldiers, 1942

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Silver Screen magazine, September 1941

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Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy And The Muppets

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Charlie McCarthy, Claudia Cardinale, and Edgar Bergen, 1966.

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Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy

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Mortimer Snerd: Relaxing at Home.

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Athalie Irvine Mitchell presenting the first Cinelandia Pan-American Award to Bette Davis at her home in Beverly Hills. The photograph shows from left Mona Maris, Rita Hayworth, Edgar Bergen, Bette Davis, Athalie Irvine Mitchell, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan.

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Eve Arden-Edgar Bergen "Carta de presentación" (Letter of introduction) 1938, de John M. Stahl.

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Edgar Bergen working on one of his dummies in the 1950's.

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Charlie McCarthy

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Edgar Bergen’s Mortimer Snerd

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Little Muppet Sesame Things #103

Celebrity Cameos #9, #10, and #11: Elliot Gould, Edgar Bergen, and Charlie McCarthy.

The Beauty Pageant host: Before we announce the winner, We would like to thank the judges of today's contest! Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy! Charlie McCarthy: You are not gonna believe who is the winner is, folks. Edgar Bergen: Come on, Charlie. It's their movie. Charlie McCarthy: So, it is.

It's wonderful in a bittersweet way to see Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy here since Edgar would pass away before the movie was released, but it's nice that he appears here since he was an inspiration and hero of Jim Henson.

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Remember When... Ventriloquism Records Were A Genre?

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Come Up and See Me Sometime…

I'm curious about pop icons. For earlier eras, a single phrase immediately identified a single person, a skirt blown up by a passing subway below said Marilyn, a face with a lightening bolt makeup was Bowie.

Somehow I got to be this age before I ever really noticed Sammy Kaye. A chance interview from the mid-70s made me wonder how that happened: Sammy Kaye was a top-tier star of the Swing Era, and I'm not unfamiliar with Swing, yet the name, if it ever came up, was glossed over, I had no recordings, not even in Various Artists complilations. Intrigued, I looked up the movie Sammy mentioned, endorsing it for the artistic freedom and respect it afforded the band

and yes, that's your Star Wars intro, on a film released on D-Day 1944.

But, being curious, I asked my 25 year old (who has led many a swing band) and no, never heard of him. Really. What about W.C.Fields?

And there I got my Future Shock. W.C. who? Ok, well, Edgar Bergen then? Blanks. A paper I read on music history had pondered this, as to why some artists are remembered as iconic for their time but not the many eligible others, the many who were as honoured, sometimes more, by their era. The paper concluded the 20th Century would likely be identified as the era of Bob Dylan.

Here in the 21st century, who are our cultural symbols? Who are the pop icons so distinctive and ubiquitous that a single phrase, a graphic line, a gesture or a feature of their face even badly drawn instantly recalls who they are?