Tag: Magic

Poster for Harry Thurston — Howard Thurston’s younger brother.
Lithograph, Chicago, c. 1930.

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The magician Joseph Dunninger revealing a fraudulent method of 'levitating' a table with a hidden hook attached to the arm.
Life Magazine. 16 June, 1941, p. 78.

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Howard Thurston levitates an assistant in a publicity still from 1930.

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Houdini and Jennie, the disappearing elephant, at the Hippodrome in New York in 1918. The act was called “The Vanishing Elephant,” and when Houdini fired a pistol, Jennie,…

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Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in ‘Houdini’ (Dir. George Marshall, 1953)