Talk:Edgar Bergen
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[edit] Date the show started
Sometimes I despair of ever finding the right dates for things on the internet. On other internet sites I have found dates for the start of Edgar Bergen's radio show given as 9th May 1936 and as 17th December 1936.
This article says 17th December 1937. Yet only a few lines further on there is a reference to a Mae West appearance on the show on 12th December 1937!!!! (Don't people read through what they have written?)
Please could somebody sort it out. Gadsby West 20:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Charlie McCarthy
We now have biographies for Charlie McCarthy (socialist) and Charlie McCarthy (hurler), so I don't think we can regard the dummy as clearly the most important person of this name, I propose turning the Charlie McCarthy page into a disambiguation with links to all 3. PatGallacher 12:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- sounds like a good idea to me. Rossrs 13:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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- It would, of course, be helpful to have a disambiguation page, but I think that this article should be where a search for "Charlie McCarthy" takes you. The socialist is not prominent (his article is something of a stub) and the hurler is not nearly as notable as the dummy. When someone cracks a joke about "Charlie McCarthy" in a movie from the '40s—as John Garfield does in Between Two Worlds (1944)—and a viewer turns to Wikipedia to figure out who he's talking about, he's going to be better served by an article about the dummy that has a {{redirect}} template at the top than by a disambig page. Robert K S 21:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
That may be a rather Americo-centric argument. The other 2 are both real people, not dummies, and they are either active at the moment or comparatively recently, not just historical figures. PatGallacher 23:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What's my Line, Trivial, but interesting
Does anyone recall either Edgar Bergen or Paul Winchell being on What's My Line as the Mystery Guest? I don't know who it was but the panel identified the contestant, Winchell or Bergen as the OTHER ventriloquist while blindfolded, and the person got very upset. It might have been live, not sure. In any case, if I am remembering it right, it suggests that Winchell and Bergen were not exactly friends. Thanks. Jimaginator 18:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Doll, Dummy, Puppet
Isn't there a word for the specific type of puppet that a Ventriloquist uses? What is considered the "correct word?" This has been bugging me... thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.104.68 (talk) 19:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- Ventriloquist's Dummy, that's what it's always been. The Matyr (converse with the Matyr) 05:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
