Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergenwas an American actor, comedian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He is also the father of actress Candice Bergen. He died on September 30, 1978, in Las Vegas, Nevada due to kidney disease...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 February 1903
CountryUnited States of America
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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I would like to see a vaudeville world of three-a-day. Five-a-day is too many. Managers who are trying to profit at that rate will gorge themselves right out of business. You can't put entertainment on a production line basis.
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My friend Charlie McCarthy is, of course, much more of a celebrity than he was 13 years ago... They wanted to see McCarthy: striped pants, monocle, derby and Bergen's bald head. If that had happened in radio, the reaction would have been slow, diffused and debatable. I wouldn't learn anything from an audience sitting in a broadcasting studio in Hollywood, because those people all are in my business.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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To think that this was once Happy Valley.
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When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven't got the faintest idea what he's going to say, and what he says astounds me with his wisdom. It is so much more that I know.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.