article_snippet.sent: Financial secrets prevailed in Candice Bergen's upbringing by Candice Bergen's model/ actress mother and Candice Bergen's famous father, Edgar Bergen, best known for as ventriloquist who's sidekick was dummy Charlie McCarthy.
article_snippet.sent: In Candice Bergen's new memoir, Candice Bergen writes that Candice Bergen's father belittled Candice Bergen's looks and favored her father dummy.
article_snippet.sent: Candice Bergen reveals that Candice Bergen would sit on one of Candice Bergen father’s knees at the breakfast table and Charlie McCarthy sat on the other.‘A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so Charlie McCarthy could ventriloquize me.
article_snippet.sent: Charlie McCarthy and I would chatter together silently, while behind us Dad would supply the snappy repartee for both of us' Success: Candice starred in the long-running TV hit Murphy Brown, here with costar Grant Shaud .
article_snippet.sent: Charlie McCarthy dominated Candy’s childhood.
article_snippet.sent: the actress sat on one of the actress ’s knees at the breakfast table and Charlie McCarthy sat on the other.
article_snippet.sent: Charlie McCarthy and I would chatter together silently, while behind us Dad would supply the snappy repartee for both of us.
article_snippet.sent: Candy's competition for Candy dad's affections was not with a sibling - it was with Candy ventriloquist EdBound to give Charlie McCarthy .
article_snippet.sent: But the two would go up in my father plane together and he’d prop Candy up on phonebooks and let Candy fly his plane.
article_snippet.sent: Charlie McCarthy always dominated Candice’s life.
article_snippet.sent: Candice compared playing Candice award-winning title role on Murphy Brown to channeling Candice inner Charlie.
article_snippet.sent: Candice father was schizophrenic in the same way -- buttoned-down, quiet, and introverted– unless Her father was with friends or had Charlie with Her father, an invitation to be risqué and tell dirty jokes.
highlights_snippet.sent: Candice Bergen's competition for Candice Bergen's dad's affection was not with a sibling - it was with his iconic sidekick dummy Charlie McCarthy .
  