Summary

EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE MCCARTHY RKO PROMO

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Title: EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE MCCARTHY RKO PROMO
File Number: AEN-27 DigiBeta
Color: B W
Type: Sound Comedy
Year: 1930s
Description: B W 1930s A series of vignettes starring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekick, Charlie McCarthy. 05:00:00:00 B W 1930s Bergen and McCarthy sitting together on porch of country house together, talking a friendly couple walks up and greets them, Bergen puts on hat and leaves with them Bergen in chicken coop corral outside of barn, some chickens and another dummy (with bucktooth and wearing a redneck farmer's overalls costume) are sitting on the fence hand-scrawled sign on fence is inscribed "An egg a day keeps the hatchet away" Bergen and the farmer dummy peek through chink window into the coop barn where a pair of married chickens (puppets), one hen and one cock, are sitting in the hay, talking to each other. Weird and wacky. 05:03:42:00 B W 1930s Bergen and McCarthy, both wearing tuxedos, perform their back-and-forth routine on stage for CAM. 05:04:18:00 B W 1930s Bergen at campfire talking to bucktoothed dummy wearing coonskin cap and western fringed leather, like Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. 05:04:48:00 B W 1930s VS Bergen wearing full Indian Native American costume (and in drag, dressed as woman squaw) with McCarthy strapped to his back by a flatboard like a papoose baby a group of Indian warrior men wearing feather headdresses and the like surround Bergen on a cliff and one points rifle gun at him he and McCarthy talk to them. 05:05:40:00 B W 1930s VS Bergen (dressed leisurely) and McCarthy (wearing top hat and tuxedo) sitting together on couch looking through a book of drawings of McCarthy.
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