Edgar Bergen & Fibber McGee & Molly

Look Who's Laughing (1941) Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and sidekick Charlie McCarthy play themselves in a film which drafted some of its cast from the world of radio. On their way to a vacation spot Bergen's plane has engine trouble and is forced to land in Wistful Vista, home to 1940s radio personalities Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan) and Molly (Marian Jordan). Fibber is involved with a local business dispute: he hopes to interest the Horton Aircraft in a nearby airstrip, and the wealthy Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve is bidding on the strip on behalf of a friend. Edgar and Charlie become Fibber's guests, and the ventriloquist offers to persuade Hilary, a friend, to buy the airstrip. Charlie, disenchanted with Wistful Vista, sends his partner a telegram which lures him out of town on false pretenses. While he's away Gildersleeve acquires the airstrip for his friend Sam Cudahy (Charles Walton) by nefarious means. Since Fibber, in disgrace for having blown the deal, has resigned from the Chamber of Commerce and has heard his house is in foreclosure, it's up to Edgar and Charlie to save their friend. A vehicle for Bergen and McCarthy, it shines only when Charlie is on camera, but it was a huge success, becoming RKO's biggest box office hit of the year.

 Here We Go Again is the most endearingly wacky of RKO Radio's Fibber McGee & Molly vehicles. The story begins as the popular radio duo prepares to leave their home town of Wistful Vista and embark upon a second honeymoon. After discovering that hotel where they originally stayed 20 years earlier is now a rundown fleabag, Fibber (Jim Jordan) and Molly (Marian Jordan) head to fancy-schmansy Silver Tip Lodge, where they run into Molly's former sweetheart Otis Cadwalader (Gale Gordon) and Fibber's "friendly enemy" Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Harold Peary). Meanwhile, ventriloquis

Heavenly Days: Fibber McGee very reluctantly traveled to Washington to visit Molly's cousin (who lived at 1738 Massachusetts Avenue) in the 1944 movie “Heavenly Days.” It doesn't look as though any scenes in the movie were actually filmed in our city, but the plot has contemporary relevance. Fibber is inspired, during his time in the visitors' gallery of the Senate chambers, to rise and attempt to make a speech about how the lawmakers should listen more to “the average man.” He and Molly are carted off unceremoniously, of course, but the upshot is that Fibber becomes something of a popular hero, and pollster George Gallup travels to Wistful Vista to give Fibber an award as the most average man in America