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
movie-love church television
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.
bible stars fun
We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.
needs friend-in-need wells
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
book night people
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!
years shells half
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
happens
Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.
business work take-a-chance
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
procrastination ambition bird
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
important asking answers
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
mistake adversity pay
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
ask questions says
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.