I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...

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In 1937, one of the most popular names in American radio stood just 90 centimetres tall and was made of wood and plastic. Ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy performed alongside Frank Sinatra, ...

For decades, the dummies talked — to millions of people. Starting in the ’30s, the great Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, turned ventriloquism into mass entertainment via radio and ...