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...Fred MacMurray, Errol Flynn, Jimmie Fidler (in pirate costume), Johnny Weissmuller, Ken Murray (in pirate costume) and others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate's bandanna), Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour (who had dressed up in a pirate costume that afternoon for photographers), and Fox's smart, hand-pumping Publicity Chief Harry Brand...
Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) was winding up a smalltime career in vaudeville when bigtime Comedian Eddie Cantor (born Izzy Iskowitz) was taking vaudeville through new Cantortions on the air. This year Jell-O's Jack Benny nosed out Ventriloquist's Dummy Charlie McCarthy as No. 1 man of the air (TIME, Feb. 12). Cantor was not in radio at all, had had no air sponsor since last June...
...spirited contest for most popular U. S. radio performer, Comedian Jack Benny has since October 1937 run a close second to a perverse but inanimate object -the saucy ventriloquist's dummy known as Charlie McCarthy. At the 1939 finish, Charlie (Chase and Sanborn Hour) had an estimated 27,000,000 Sunday-night listeners: Jell-O's Jack Benny, an hour earlier on the same NBC-Red network, 24,000,000. Beginning Jan. 7, Standard Brands pared the Chase and Sanborn program to a half-hour, saving some $7,500 in airtime charges, plus salaries of Hollywood fixtures like...
Jack Benny was chosen top comedian for the seventh successive time; Fred Allen second; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy (the people's choice in many listener surveys), third. Benny's Sunday-night program for Jell-O was voted tops, too, with Information Please second...
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (Universal). In this often dull, sometimes raucous, rarely amusing whodunit, Charlie McCarthy knows all the answers except what to do next with a talented ventriloquist's dummy in pictures. He sings a song, echoes some reminiscent gags (Sample: "I don't mind suffering, it's just the pain I can't stand"). He is also credited with solving a murder which is really solved by Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is said to be somewhat jealous of Charlie, has a clause in his contract stating that Charlie McCarthy must never be billed above Edgar...