Charlie McCarthy Doll
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen and his puppets Charlie and Mortimer Snerd.
Back in about the late 1930s I got a Charlie McCarthy puppet doll for Christmas.
Charlie McCarthy was very popular at that time. Edgar Bergen was the ventriloquist who operated the Charlie McCarthy puppet. Charlie McCarthy was a radio show back then because TV was not very widespread yet. And, in fact, TV was the doomsday for Charlie McCarthy.
I loved my Charlie and played with it a lot. I do not know now what ever became of it. Lost in the shuffle of moving and time it somehow was lost forever.
If I were fortunate enough to still have it I imagine that it would be worth a fortune.
Charlie McCarthy is just a memory for most of us who were living then. For the rest of you it is a shame you will never know Charlie!
posted by kyra lafain @ 12/23/2008 12:30:00 PM
2 Comments:
I remember seeing Edgar Bergen and Charlie and Mortimer on Ed Sullivan quite frequently. I always thought a ventriloquist on radio was kind of ironic. Anyway, you are probably right about the value of your Charlie McCarthy! Too bad he was lost.
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