Bergen was the ventriloquist, Charlie his dummy. A popular act on TV in the 50's. As a side note, Bergen was the father of Candice Bergen. At 07:49 PM 9/20/00 -0400, you wrote: > >okay guys.. the quote is "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take >a chance?" > >i wrote down the citation as "Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)" ...and >now i'm a little confused. one is probably the actor playing the >other.. the line was probably in a movie or tv show... but i don't >know which is which. little help? > >`licia > >-- >vi's qP: http://neptune.spaceports.com/~vi/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- The Thought for Today Quotation Archive George Osner <gosner@ainet.com> http://webpages.ainet.com/gosner/quotationsarch/ -------------------------------------------------------------