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John Dadlez
Blackouts, gas rationing and other constrictions trapped people in their homes throughout the war years... and tuning in to their radios. It was at this moment when, with his dummies Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen offered amusement light enough to raise morale and improve national morality.
In 1936, on Rudy Vallee's Royal Gelatin Hour, Bergen and
McCarthy made their radio debut and became an immediate hit. They were given their own Chase & Sanborn show in 1937. The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show almost instantly became one of the highest-rated shows on radio, a distinction it held until it left the air in 1956.
In the Radio Hall of Fame, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker are on permanent display today.
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