Roger
If you watch the Bergen/McCarthy movies, it is pretty easy to see why he
could succeed on radio (and he wasn't even a good ventriloquist!). The joy
of watching him was that Charlie had an incredibly well defined character,
and was crude, rude, and nasty, and one always wondered if he represented
some really twisted dark side of the extremely polite and kind Bergen, since
they were of course, one person.
I recommend highly You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. Adding W.C. Fields to the
mix is a sheer delight.
As to the poster, it was drawn by Jacques Kapralik, who has a somewhat
cultish following. Much of his work appeared in MGM's Lion's Roar magazine.
As to the poster's condition, it was really not too bad, and could be easily
corrected through linenbacking (although as we have all learned, that is to
be avoided at all costs!).
Maybe I will have something for you next time around! Thanks for trying, and
thanks for the report.
Bruce
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Roger Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce is wondering whether I remembered to bid on his auctions.
>
> This time, I did the immediate lowball bid approach on about 10 auctions.
> By the next day, I had lost the lead on most of them.
>
> There was only one poster that I was really interested in: "Charlie
> McCarthy, Detective." I thought this poster would go for about $250, since
> there is a border corner missing and the economy stinks. But it managed to
> fetch $562, which I think is quite good. (I didn't bother bidding again.)
>
> For those who don't know, Edgar Bergen was ventriloquist, and his main
> dummy was Charlie McCarthy. For some inexplicable reason, they had one of
> the most popular radio shows during the golden age of radio. It makes no
> sense that they let a ventriloquist on the radio. It's almost as bad as
> putting a mime on the radio. I think it's one of the great mysteries of the
> universe that the show worked.
>
> -rk
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