Max Terhune

I can remember these postcard sized things from my childhood.  You put a quarter in a machine and out  popped  a random picture.  I patronized the machines that sold dinosaur pictures.  Sometimes baseball players, but mostly dinosaurs.

So, Max Terhune was a Vaudevillian.  He was a magician, juggler, impressionist, whistler, did card tricks, but his specialty was ventriloquism, with his dummy Skully Null.  After appearing on the Gene Autry radio show (Ventriloquism on the radio!) he moved to Hollywood and worked in a number of B movies, almost all westerns.  He was one of The Three Mesquiteers, but after John Wayne left the series, and latter  he was in the Range Busters series.  Strangely enough, after a long career of one bad movie after another,  and equally bad TV shows, he ended his life in the movies with a role in Giant.  Yes, that Giant.  The one with Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Rock Hudson.  Terhune died in 1973.