Burl Ives hosts Hollywood Palace (4 of 5) 12/12/64 --Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy) --Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) - appears in a skit with her father.
Master of the art form...unquestionably the originator of modern comic ventriloquism as we know it. More than mastery of the art is the personality of Edgar Bergen. The Hollywood Palace was the Ed Sullivan show west, a bit more upscale with Nick Vanoff as one of the producers.
Thanks for the video. This is one of the few where Edgar Bergen is wearing the same top hat as Charlie. Usually, he doesn't wear a hat, at least when he was younger.
Bergen's transitions, flawless, present to the past then back again. Is Charlie a real person? The question never comes up. There is no implied question as to one man in duality mode...Batman's Scarface villain, Dead Of Night, Anthony Hopkin's character in Magic. The real magic here occurs because it is left to the audience to assume "what if" while Bergen presents the possibility of 'make believe and allows the audience's imagination to play with the possibility. Thus Charlie...comes alive!
I remember him crying from Fun and Fancy Free...I used to watch it all the time! And i just remembered the scene where Charlie is crying...oh so many memories brought back
I saw them live in the late 70's and they did the part of the act seen here...where they listened to old broadcasts on the radio...it was the worse part of the act - I did not want to hear old stuff, I wanted to see them in the present. Thankfully the rest of that act, and a skit they did later were very funny!
@Jcolinsol If you see my comment, there were issues but clearly nothing so traumatic that it didn't keep Candice from having her own identity, completely separate from her father.
February 16, 1903: birth of Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978). Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy; at 4:10 Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) appears in a skit with her father.
Master of the art form...unquestionably the originator of modern comic ventriloquism as we know it. More than mastery of the art is the personality of Edgar Bergen. The Hollywood Palace was the Ed Sullivan show west, a bit more upscale with Nick Vanoff as one of the producers.
Bringing WC Fields back to life. Kind of weird if you hear that same routine on the radio 25 years earlier.
Thanks for the video. This is one of the few where Edgar Bergen is wearing the same top hat as Charlie. Usually, he doesn't wear a hat, at least when he was younger.
Hard to believe they were the number one show...on radio! Took a lot of guts to go from vaudeville to radio.
This is SO GREAT! I LOVE watching Bergen and Mccarthy. Now I have to find some with Effie Klinker, my personal favorite.
soooooooooooooooooooooo brilliant
Bergen's transitions, flawless, present to the past then back again. Is Charlie a real person? The question never comes up. There is no implied question as to one man in duality mode...Batman's Scarface villain, Dead Of Night, Anthony Hopkin's character in Magic. The real magic here occurs because it is left to the audience to assume "what if" while Bergen presents the possibility of 'make believe and allows the audience's imagination to play with the possibility. Thus Charlie...comes alive!
Candice was a beauty. "Just my luck, she has to be my sister." Best line in all the show.
@intruderart I just stumbled across a 1962 episode of BACHELOR FATHER where Edgar and wife Frances appear, but not Candice.
I remember him crying from Fun and Fancy Free...I used to watch it all the time! And i just remembered the scene where Charlie is crying...oh so many memories brought back
I saw them live in the late 70's and they did the part of the act seen here...where they listened to old broadcasts on the radio...it was the worse part of the act - I did not want to hear old stuff, I wanted to see them in the present. Thankfully the rest of that act, and a skit they did later were very funny!
@Jcolinsol If you see my comment, there were issues but clearly nothing so traumatic that it didn't keep Candice from having her own identity, completely separate from her father.
@missbiancamoon Candice has said there were times she felt resentful toward her wooden "siblings".
I JUST realized. The pretty girl is CANDICE BERGEN!!! How cool is THAT?
February 16, 1903: birth of Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978).
Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy; at 4:10 Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) appears in a skit with her father.
year 2019. still waiting for that radio. that could pick up sounds from past. no joking it will be invented.
Daughter! wow it's never too late I guess.
times like this...i wish he was here for my generation
Wait a sec, if he died in 1978, and he had a cameo in the Muppets movie in 1979, how is that possible...
+Sherlock Holmes It was recorded before his death and released in '79.
lolve charlie
After watching this, and I'm 50, I believe in Santa Claus, all over again.
Marilyn died in '62 so why would he use her voice after?
They used recordings from old shows.
wow! this was cool.
That explains her wooden acting!
Candace bergen!!!
Candice was jealous of the dummy when she was young. The title of her autobio was KNOCK WOOD.
@missbiancamoon
A terrifying, childhood traumatizing, hoot.