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Second Fiddle displays Sonja as Trudi Hovland, a schoolmarm of Bergen, Minn. who is called to Hollywood because her local swain has sent her photograph to Consolidated Pictures Corp., which has been looking high & low for just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Comedian: Edgar Bergen and his mouthpiece, Charlie McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Star of Stars | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Variety program: Chase & Sanborn (Bergen, McCarthy, et al.). > Children's program: The Lone Ranger. > Dramatic serial: One Man's Family. > Swing band: Artie Shaw's. > Dance orchestra: Wayne King's. >Educational program: CBS's American School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Star of Stars | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Vatican wraps its diplomatic moves in as thick a fog as the Kremlin. But two mysterious talks of the Pope with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, a talk with German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl Ludwig Diego von Bergen, two "very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vatican v. Kremlin | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Before he went to Manhattan, in the first of what the radio business believes will be a series of big-show visitations from the Hollywood studios during World's Fair time, Edgar Bergen made his will. In it he remembered Charlie, leaving $10,000 to the National Society of Ventriloquists so that Charlie might be kept in repair and used to encourage the perpetuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Man & Moppet | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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