Dummy: Charlie McCarthyFilmography

Born:: Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor, Songwriter
Biography:: The irrepressible Charlie McCarthy was born at the age of 11. More specifically, he was carved from a block of pine by an Illinois carpenter named Theodore Mack, then sold to aspiring teenage ventriloquist Edgar Bergen for 35 dollars. Created in the image of a Chicago newsboy named -- what else?...Read More

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W.C. Fields: On Stage, on Screen, on the Air

Synopsis: He was born William Claude Dukenfield, but to the world for over thirty years he was known as W.C. Fields, star of the vaudeville stage and of the cinema, first starting in silent films and then earning an impressive repertoire in the talkies. His classic films include My Little Chickadee, The Read More

1998
The Phynx

Actors: Michael Miller, Ray Chippeway, Dennis Larden, Lonny Stevens, Lou Antonio

Synopsis: Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together? Well, that's barely the tip of the improbable casting iceberg in this bizarre cold-war spoof. The leaders of the American intelligence organization the S.S.A. ("Super Secret Read More

1970
Do You Trust Your Wife (1956) / I've Got a Secret (1961)

Synopsis: This video contains episodes from two popular television quiz shows from the 1950s. Do You Trust Your Wife starred the talented Edgar Bergen and his wooden counterpart Charlie McCarthy while I've Got a Secret featured host Garry Moore. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
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1956
Song of the Open Road

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Jane Powell, W.C. Fields

Synopsis: A beautiful child (14-year-old Jane Powell in her feature film debut) star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. Read More

1944
Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

1943
Here We Go Again!

Actors: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Edgar Bergen, Dummy: Charlie McCarthy, Harold Peary

Synopsis: Filmed on leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets, Here We Go Again is the most endearingly wacky of RKO Radio's Fibber McGee & Molly vehicles. The story begins as the popular radio duo prepares to leave their home town of Wistful Vista and embark upon a second honeymoon. After discovering that hotel Read More

1942
Look Who's Laughing

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Dummy: Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Lucille Ball

Synopsis: Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his radio series, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen sets out in his private plane, accompanied by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Developing engine trouble, Bergen makes a forced landing Read More

1941
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Ivan Lebedeff, W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Constance Moore

Synopsis: In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E. Whipsnade. When he's not trying to fleece the customers or elude the sheriff, Whipsnade busys himself trying to break up the romance between his daughter Vicky (Constance Moore) and Read More

1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Having proven their box-office value in such films as A Letter of Introduction, Goldwyn Follies and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wise-lipped dummy Charlie McCarthy were awarded with a starring vehicle of their own. While entertaining at the home of magazine Read More

1939
The Goldwyn Follies

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Vera Zorina, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds

Synopsis: A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of The Ziegfeld Follies by producing an annual movie-musical revue. Goldwyn's dream began and ended with 1938's Goldwyn Follies, a film centering on Goldwyn-like movie producer Read More

1938
A Letter of Introduction

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Edgar Bergen, George Murphy, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: A master blend of high comedy and tense emotional drama, A Letter of Introduction reteams Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, who'd previously costarred in the negligible Goldwyn Follies. Menjou plays John Mannering, a Barrymoresque actor who years earlier had Read More

1938

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Dummy: Charlie McCarthyFilmography

W.C. Fields: On Stage, on Screen, on the Air

The Phynx

Do You Trust Your Wife (1956) / I've Got a Secret (1961)

More Edgar Bergen / Charlie McCarthy - Do You Trust Your Wife?

Song of the Open Road

Stage Door Canteen

Here We Go Again!

Look Who's Laughing

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

The Goldwyn Follies

A Letter of Introduction

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