| American
actress Candice Bergen was a celebrity even before she
was born. As the first child of popular radio ventriloquist
Edgar Bergen and his young wife Frances, Candice was
a hot news item months before her birth, and headline
material upon that blessed event (her coming into the
world even prompted magazine cartoons which suggested
that Edgar would try to confound the nurses by "giving"
his new daughter a voice). Candice made her first public
appearance as an infant, featured with her parents in
a magazine advertisement. Before she was ten, Candice
was appearing sporadically on dad's radio program, demonstrating
a precocious ability to throw her own voice (a skill
she hasn't been called upon to repeat in recent years);
at 11 she and Groucho Marx's daughter Melinda were guest
contestants on Groucho's TV quiz show You Bet Your Life.
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