Edgar Bergen
received a special wooden Oscar with a movable jaw
in 1937 for the creation of Charlie McCarthy. In his acceptance speech,
Charlie said "Carved out of wood! A bit of sarcasm, I suppose."

Bergen was a peculiar choice for Oscar recognition, having
appeared in only thirteen undistinguished short films when he
won his award, although he was a popular figure on radio where
Charlie would battle with his nemesis W.C. Fields. The
ventriloquist made his feature film debut in The Goldwyn Follies
the year he won the Oscar, and would go on to make appearances
in a handful of mediocre films (most memorably opposite Fields
in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man) before finally determining
that film wasn't really his medium and concentrating on his
successful career in radio, nightclubs and television.

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