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Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.
I think television defeats ventriloquism.
On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.
Ventriloquism today is in a slump.... (more Paul Winchell quotes)
Winchell was an amateur medical inventor who patented an artificial human heart.
Ventriloquist star from 1950s and 1960s television and films.
His puppet side-kicks, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, are now in the Smithsonian Institution.
Skilled voice-over artist for many Disney and Hanna-Barbera films.
Father of five children: Stephanie and Stacy (with first wife, Dottie Morse); April Winchell (with second wife, Nina Russel); and ha... (more Paul Winchell trivia)
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The Key To Ventriloquism For Fun And Profit, By Paul Winchell, Inspired By Jerry Mahoney, Foreword By Ted Mack by InspiredJerry Mahoney Paul Winchell and Ted Mack |
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Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney & Knucklehead Smiff in the All New Pinocchio by Paul Winchell |
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Souvenir Program. TUNNEL OF LOVE Fields/De Vries. Stars Paul Winchell. 1959 by Joseph Fields and Peter De Vries |
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The Lucy Show: Lucy & Paul Winchell/Lucy Flies to London ~ Lucille Ball |
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