#Edgar Bergen

[gatabella]

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

#gene tierney #gary cooper #edgar bergen

[browsethestacks]

Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy And The Muppets

#Muppets #The Muppets #Muppet Show #Edgar Bergen #Charlie McCarthy #Ventriloquist #Ventriloquism #Film #TV #Television #Radio #OTR #Old Time Radio #Jim Henson

[citizenscreen]

Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd having their portraits taken with Santa Claus in 1939. Edgar Bergen is Santa.

#edgar bergen #old hollywood #christmas

[oldshowbiz]

Mortimer Snerd: Relaxing at Home.

#edgar bergen #ventriloquist

[puppetdaily]

Edgar Bergen’s Mortimer Snerd

#edgar bergen #mortimer snerd

[teledyn]

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?

#pop culture #pop music history #music history #jane powell #sammy kaye #edgar bergen #w. c. fields

[semioticapocalypse]

Marry Ellen Mark. Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy. Los Angeles, 1978.

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#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Marry Ellen Mark #Edgar Bergen #Charlie McCarthy #Los Angeles #1978 #1970s #70s

[lisamarie-vee]

#life magazine #1940s #b&w #harpo marx #edward g. robinson #edgar bergen #linda darnell #painting

[gatutor]

Lucille Ball-Edgar Bergen "Look who´s laughing" 1941, de Allan Dwan.

#Lucille Ball #Edgar Bergen #Allan Dwan

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#I Remember Mama #Irene Dunne #Barbara Bel Geddes #Oscar Homolka #Ellen Corby #Philip Dorn #Cedric Hardwicke #Edgar Bergen #Rudy Vallee #Barbara O'Neil #George Stevens #1948

[arkholt]

Mortimer and Charlie, by Edgar Bergen and Carl Buettner, from December 31, 1939.

#comic strips #newspaper comics #comic history #comics #sequential art #new year's eve #edgar bergen #carl buettner

[zaccariacombat]

My mom got me this little book last Christmas! I know it’s been a while since then, but I thought I would finally share it.

As soon as I saw this book, I was overwhelmed with so many emotions because Edgar Bergen signed it. I deeply care about Edgar Bergen, so seeing and holding something that I know he interacted with made me feel so many things. The book itself is this promotional item for the Goldwyn Follies that talks about Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy’s daily lives as if Charlie were a real person. It’s clearly fictionalized and is not an actually accurate depiction of Edgar Bergen’s life at the time. Honestly it reads like a fanfic even though it was official, and I mean that in a very fun, positive way. It was enjoyable to read and I was so happy to get something that was signed by Edgar Bergen!

#edgar bergen #charlie mccarthy #1930s #old hollywood #ventriloquism #old time radio

[browsethestacks]

Remember When... Ventriloquism Records Were A Genre?

#Records #Remember When #Ventriloquist #Ventriloquism #Edgar Bergen #Charlie McCarthy #Mortimer Snerd #Paul Winchell #Jerry Mahoney #Dummies #Dummy #Weird #WTF

[citizenscreen]

Edgar Bergen was born on February 16, 1903 #botd

#edgar bergen #charlie mccarthy #candice bergen #old hollywood

[oldshowbiz]

Bergen of Beverly Hills.

#Edgar Bergen #otr #beverly hills #architecture #spanish colonial

[kwebtv]

Walt Disney Presents One Hour in Wonderland - NBC - December 25, 1950

Special

Running Time: 60 minutes

One Hour in Wonderland is a 1950 television special made by Walt Disney Productions. It was first seen on Christmas Day, 1950, over NBC (4–5 pm in all time zones) for Coca-Cola, and was Walt Disney's first television production. It featured Disney as host, with Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (who appeared on radio for Coke), and other celebrities who worked with Disney, including the Firehouse Five Plus Two jazz band. This special was actually a promotional program for Disney's upcoming theatrical feature, Alice in Wonderland. Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Alice, was dressed like her for this television special. Walt's daughters Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney were also featured in the production. Hans Conried appeard as the Magic Mirror. (Wikipedia)

Segments

Seven Dwarves' Party for Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) - 1937

Clock Cleaners (Mickey Mouse) - 1937

Br'er Rabbit Runs Away (Song of the South) - 1946

Bone Trouble (Pluto) - 1940

Jingle Bells (made for the special) - performed by Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Mad Tea Party (Alice in Wonderland) - 1950/1951

#Walt Disney Presents One Hour in Wonderland #TV #NBC #Special #1950 #Walt Disney #Bobby Driscoll #Kathryn Beaumont #Edgar Bergen #Hans Conreid