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 ...

An audience that can get the savor of Edgar Bergen’s ventriloquism can probably get the savor of anything—even a disembodied Marlene Dietrich. This week radio addicts will get a chance to do precisely ...

Charley McCarthy is in for trouble. On Sept. 3 on the Chase & Sanborn program (NBC, Sun., 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) Charley will be introduced to the first wooden woman who ever sat on Edgar Bergen’s lap—a ...

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 ...