Talk:Edgar Bergen/Archives/2013

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Lake View High School is in Chicago, not Decatur, MI as the article implies.

Date the show started
Sometimes I despair of ever finding the right dates for things on the internet. On other internet sites I have found dates for the start of Edgar Bergen's radio show given as 9th May 1936 and as 17th December 1936.

This article says 17th December 1937. Yet only a few lines further on there is a reference to a Mae West appearance on the show on 12th December 1937!!!! (Don't people read through what they have written?)

Please could somebody sort it out. Gadsby West 20:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Charlie McCarthy
We now have biographies for Charlie McCarthy (socialist) and Charlie McCarthy (hurler), so I don't think we can regard the dummy as clearly the most important person of this name, I propose turning the Charlie McCarthy page into a disambiguation with links to all 3. PatGallacher 12:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * sounds like a good idea to me. Rossrs 13:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It would, of course, be helpful to have a disambiguation page, but I think that this article should be where a search for "Charlie McCarthy" takes you. The socialist is not prominent (his article is something of a stub) and the hurler is not nearly as notable as the dummy.  When someone cracks a joke about "Charlie McCarthy" in a movie from the '40s—as John Garfield does in Between Two Worlds (1944)—and a viewer turns to Wikipedia to figure out who he's talking about, he's going to be better served by an article about the dummy that has a  template at the top than by a disambig page. Robert K S 21:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

That may be a rather Americo-centric argument. The other 2 are both real people, not dummies, and they are either active at the moment or comparatively recently, not just historical figures. PatGallacher 23:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Doll, Dummy, Puppet
Isn't there a word for the specific type of puppet that a Ventriloquist uses? What is considered the "correct word?" This has been bugging me... thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.104.68 (talk) 19:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ventriloquist's Dummy, that's what it's always been. The Matyr (converse with the Matyr) 05:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Change in licensing for File:Charliebergen.jpg
As a result of some research, I found the copyrights for these images were not renewed. Full details can be found on the file. Because of this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Moonriddengirl#Need_advice.2C_please. conversation], am changing the licenses of the images in the NBC Parade of Stars portfolio to public domain-copyright not renewed.

Mother's Maiden Name
I'm confused by the entry "...Nilla Svensdotter (née Osberg)..." for Edgar Bergen's mother's maiden name. In the Scandinavian naming tradition, Svensdotter can only be a female name, so how come she has a different birth name? Same-sex marriage was many decades in the future, so "Svensdotter" couldn't reflect a previous marriage. :-) Dick Kimball (talk) 16:09, 19 April 2012 (UTC)