Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy:The eyes have it

[mvies77]

I love Charlie and Mortimer Snerd. This was funny but I have heard and seen even funnier bits especially with WC Field's who hated Charley. So much, that Edgar Bergen had to hide him when Edgar was not performing. Field's advanced alcoholism caused him to believe Charley was real and he wanted to destroy him.

[TheDani1213]

*McCarthy

I LOVE Jeff Dunham a lot more but I think Charlie is HILARIOUS

[TheDani1213]

I have a Charlie Macarthy ventrioquist dummy

[birca04]

SO THATS WHY HE NEEDS HIS MONOCLE 

[KingdomHeartsMusicHQ]

I am gonna buy a Charlie McCarthy doll......wish me luck ~

[extremefunnygamerguy]

This is Great

[patches53]

How did this guy get away with this for so long. You can see his lips move.

[iamthewalrus3654]

@patches53 Because he is incredible

[kotku320]

Does anybody have the year of this?

[tribegoddess]

I saw Charley McCarthy and Howdy Doody at the Smithsonian and cried. When I was young the were alive, Now they're dead in a glass coffin.

[etbella3]

@tribegoddess If Jesus rose from the dead.......Cryogenics -- once a cure is found, Charlie and Doody will be back again someday.

[MsHippocampe]

Har. "I see spots when I look at spots."

[LLandROC]

Realy Nice, i like it!! =)

[hello55501]

:D :D read the last line... oguci.... THATS COrrEct lolololol

[HEIGHTSIXFIVE]

He's movin his lips.

[LynnetteAndreaVictor]

Edgar Bergen reminds me of my English teacher from my sophomore year. He looks like him too. Edgar and Charlie are so funny!!! So was my English teacher, he made English fun.

[PunkCabaretDoll]

wow. is it just me but edgar bergen looked quite eerily like jens lekman!

[venttobe]

Cool!

[fromthesidelines]

...and once in a long while, 'etraig', Charlie would say to Edgar, "You know, you DO move your lips a little.."

[Savedleech]

Charlies voice is unforgettable, at least to me. I wonder if somehow other 19 year olds grew up on this.

[vic2497]

Charlie's HILARIOUS! He actually looks better with glasses in my opinion.

[caitlinjane92]

Thanks so much for posting this! Charlie's HILARIOUS! He actually looks a lot cuter without glasses, in my opinion.

[gabriellejordan]

okay so the glasses with the windshield wipers, when i was a kid i wanted a pair like them so bad, and so the only problem i have with bergen is how his head moves similarly to chariles when he is doing his voice

[etraig]

i've loved bergen and mcarthy for years, edgar's lips always did move a little. he always however created the illusion that charlie was really talking.

[ardyay]

I hope todays ventriloquists, Jeff Dunham and Terry Fator will have their own show someday.

[GermanOperaSinger]

They are good but I still prefer the oldies like Bergen, Winchell.

[cygnuxman]

jeff dunum is getting his own show next week.

[RIORDENATO]

These guys are the best (this guy) but they never got enough credit.

[EBursey]

I keep on meaning to post some of the radio shows. I got about 200 or so of them, from 1930's to 1950's and I'm such a huge fan. Always loved him with WC Fields

[soysauce55]

Thanks for posting. I remember seeing him when I was little but I could not rememeber their names or anything ! It was great seeing this again !

[MIKEPREAMP]

Thank you for posting this. I like Edgar, Charlie, and the rest, but this is the earliest I've seen. My recall of them starts with 1950's t.v. Quality is good, too.

[pi252525]

lol! his glasses worked for the fishing trip

[fromthesidelines]

At the time this was filmed, Charlie was basically a "newsboy" character- later, when Edgar was booked to play the Helen Morgan Club in New York, he decided to make Charlie a "man about town" (to match the joint's clientele), and dressed him up in top hat, white tie, tails and monocle...

[RETROGEMS]

Great trivia!

[FrankWestReporter]

Sooo, Is that how he got his monicle?

[fromthesidelines]

This was one of the first (if not THE first) of Edgar and Charlie's one-reel Warner Bros./Vitaphone shorts, released in 1931. At the time, Bergen was still on the vaudeville and night club circuit, and really didn't make an impact on radio until his famous appearance on Rudy Vallee's "ROYAL GELATIN HOUR" in December 1936, which led to his weekly "CHASE & SANBORN HOUR" gig in May 1937...