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 {{redirect}} 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 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)