As I was sorting through old negatives from the 1960s, I came across an envelope labeled “Edgar Bergen at Sunshine Mission, Tues. Oct. 22/63.” What was Edgar Bergen, the famed ventriloquist whose ...

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen received a special wooden Oscar in 1937 for his comedic creation, Charlie McCarthy. Bergen's career spanned live theater, radio, and film, and he appeared in 14 movies. The ...

Autograph, pencil on pink paper, of ventriloquist, Edgar Bergen. The donor, Dreda K. Schieller, described how she acquired the signatures: "In 1938, Blanche Calloway and her band was appearing on ...

During the past seven years Edgar Bergen has made himself a national figure largely by talking to himself. He has done this with the aid of an apparatus called Charlie McCarthy, which has become an ...

Born May 9, 1946, in Beverly Hills, California to famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and model Frances Westerman Bergen, Candice Patricia Bergen got her start in showbiz as part of her father’s puppet ...

Frances Bergen, who died Monday at 84,was featured on billboards for Ipana toothpaste and Chesterfield cigarettes, but it is as wife of Edgar Bergen, mother of Candice Bergen, and genial straight man ...

In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known ...

Framed oil painting of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy. Both are dressed in formal wear. The portrait was painted by Christian von Scheidau, an artist known for his portrait work ...