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Ventriloquist Paul Winchell invented the patent for a mechanical artificial heart patent implant in the chest.
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney are the super stars Ventriloquist acts of television.
Believe or not Paul Winchell was the rival of Edgar Bergen, the new hot thing..now that television is invented people at home can watch the art of ventriloquism not just imagine like with radio.. people believed Charlie McCarthy was a real person on the radio with television Paul Winchell created the illusion of life that Jerry Mahoney was a real person.
Paul Winchell was not much of a Edgar Bergen meaning Paul Winchell ventriloquism was a master of puppetry and Edgar Bergen ventriloquism was the illusion of life, people in the beginning believed that Charlie McCarthy was a real person and that is what Edgar Bergen created in the end. If you look at Charlie McCarthy photos you will see that Charlie McCarthy is a growing boy and you will also see that Charlie McCarthy did the illusion of age.. meaning there are six to thirteen heads of Charlie McCarthy.
Paul Winchell also was a voice actor, he played cartoon characters in the Smurf and the tiger movie.
I witnessed Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, I watched on television when I was a kid, my witness was the Ventriloquist act was very energetic.
Paul Winchell knew about the audience rumors about his rival with Edgar Bergen but he seems to keep quiet on the subject until he confess in his own words on a Paul Winchell ventriloquism video lesson that he made, that video is a collectors item, why? Because on a popular television 1956 game show name "what's my line" Edgar Bergen was a surprise guest and Paul Winchell was one of the celebrities game players, at the end the show Paul Winchell seems to be uneasy that Edgar Bergen was the surprise guest, Edgar Bergen said before waving Paul Winchell off "I have seen a lot of Ventriloquist students with Jerry Mahoney dummies" or something in that nature..the waving off is a gesture of a nice way of saying it is what it is ..on this television show Edgar Bergen seem to be saying in his body lanuage goodbye to the new generation of Ventriloquists.
I think the television show producers knew about the Winchell and Bergen rivalry.. and it seems Paul Winchell really didn't know that his secret guest was his rival and on the show Paul Winchell quickly address the audience of the rival rumors after realizing that his rival was a special secret guest...go witness for yourself at 1956 what's my line Edgar Bergen/ Paul Winchell, Sure 1956 ventriloquism television controversy.
During some period of time the art of ventriloquism was devided by it's students.. some students were Jerry Mahoney believers and some were Charlie McCarthy followers.. that's even today, writers and reporters and interviewers will ask a Ventriloquist, how? or who? how did you discover the art of ventriloquism or who taught you Ventriloquism or something in that nature, what influence you to do ventriloquism.
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney are a new generation art of ventriloquism, this Ventriloquist act had a lot going on.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Ventriloquist act didn't have a lot going on it was a smooth ride from start to finish.
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell daughter was a radio show host her name is April Winchell.
Some Ventriloquist dummies were made from copies of Jerry Mahoney such as the Ventriloquist dummy Lester.
There's many copies of look like Jerry Mahoney dummies being made today, if you would like a Jerry Mahoney look alike most figure makers can build one for you don't ask me why I am not a figure maker, maybe because the frame is easy to find.
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney are the stars of television but Paul Winchell did arrive on radio... media can help a Ventriloquist career more than live performance make a note of that and keep it in your back pocket.
I own a copy of Paul Winchell finally showing some respect to Edgar Bergen in his confession and what's strange about the confession is that it just came out of nowhere one minute Paul Winchell is filming his lesson on how to become a Ventriloquist then boom! I was very happy to hear him speaking on that subject. "Golden" during the filming Paul Winchell is up in age but all this time I have been wanting to know.