July 31, 2012 – (Above) Film, television, and radio star Charlie McCarthy on display at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in River North, along with show-biz legends Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. There are three versions of Charlie McCarthy – one is on display at the Smithsonian Institution and magician David Copperfield, according to the Internet Movie Database, owns the other.

(Inset) Charlie (left) with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (right, wearing white shirt and eyeglasses) in the 1931 short film The Eyes Have It. (Click on image to view larger version.)