As I was sorting through old negatives from the 1960s, I came across an envelope labeled “Edgar Bergen at Sunshine Mission, Tues. Oct. 22/63.” What was Edgar Bergen, the famed ventriloquist whose ...

Before she was Murphy Brown and the star of such films as Carnal Knowledge, Candice Bergen grew up watching her father Edgar Bergen scratch his way to stardom with his arm up the back of the wooden ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: February 16th, 1903, 111 years ago today . . . a day that's worth talking about. For that was the day Edgar Bergen was born in Decatur, Michigan.

Actress Frances Bergen died at Cedars-Sinai on Oct.2 following a lengthy illness. She was 84 years old. She was the widow of world-famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. She is survived by her daughter ...

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen received a special wooden Oscar in 1937 for his comedic creation, Charlie McCarthy. Bergen's career spanned live theater, radio, and film, and he appeared in 14 movies. The ...

Candice Bergen has been famous for most of her life. Her father, the famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, had her accompany him on radio and TV when she was just a little girl along with her “brother” ...

Marlo Thomas, who’s headlining Joe DiPietro’s off-Broadway comedy of indiscretions Clever Little Lies, saw several different circles of her life intersect over lunch at La Grenouille, one of the last ...

Born May 9, 1946, in Beverly Hills, California to famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and model Frances Westerman Bergen, Candice Patricia Bergen got her start in showbiz as part of her father’s puppet ...

Musical performances from both the dawn of sound and the beginnings of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most storied careers are featured on newly released DVDs. “Vitaphone Varieties: Volume Two” is a two-disc ...

Actress Frances Bergen, widow of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of Candice Bergen, died Oct. 2 in Los Angeles after a prolonged illness. She was 84. Bergen was born Frances Westerman in ...