Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1939. Vintage publicity photograph of Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd from the 1939 film, with a mimeo snipe attached to the verso.
From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.
The third film to feature Edgar Bergen and his ventriloquist dummies Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, and the first film to feature them in the lead. Bergen, McCarthy, and Snerd help solve the murder of a corrupt editor with ties to the mob.
10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
[Book #164824]
Price: $125.00
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