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Harry Houdini Biography.com It was there that he became interested in trapeze arts. In 1894, Erich launched his career as a professional magician and renamed himself Harry Houdini, the first name being a derivative of his childhood nickname, Ehrie, and the last an homage to the great French magician Jean Eugene Eugène-Robert. houdin
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Timeline of magic 1876 - The first publication of Modern Magic. Written by Professor Louis Hoffman (1839–1919) (Real name Angelo John Lewis), it was a definitive work on the state of the art of that time. 1877 - Martinka and Co. was founded by Francis and Antonio Martinka, it was run by Houdini in 1919 and is still in existence today.
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Red Skelton (1913â1997) The son of a former circus clown turned grocer and a cleaning woman, Red Skelton was introduced to show business at the age of seven by Ed Wynn, at a vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 10, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at age 15.
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The Artist (2011) - Movie Details Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.... Full synopsis ».
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- The 10 best magicians – in pictures. With Derren Brown currently touring a mind-bending new show around the UK, we pull the pick of the profession's big names from a top hat. Kathy Sweeney. Saturday 4 May 2013 12.30 EDT.
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10 Great Movie Directors Who Always Use The Same Cast His financial situation also helped him become one of the first pioneers of indie cinema. His self-funded approach to filmmaking allowed him to work outside the studio system and use techniques that were not popular in Hollywood at the time, such as the use of improvisation and a documentary- inspired shooting style.
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Philippe Halsman: The Father Of Jumpology Halsman eventually became one of the most successful portrait photographers in the 1950s. You may have seen his portraits of Dali, Albert Einstein and countless others. It must have taken some real charisma to convince both Marilyn Monroe and Richard Nixon to jump.
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Magic in the Moonlight  ( 2014) Stanley is a magician who has dedicated his life to revealing fraudulent spiritualists. He plans to quickly uncover the truth behind celebrated spiritualist Sophie and her scheming mother.
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Milton Berle Milton Berle. Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television duringTV's golden age.
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Lon Chaney Lon Chaney in 1925, during the filming of The Phantom of the Opera, showing his famous makeup case that he used to transform himself into The Man of a Thousand Faces. Leonidas Frank Lon Chaney, sometimes known as Lon Chaney Sr, (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter.
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- Harry Houdini Net Worth, Biography & Wiki 2017. Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz in Budapest, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts.
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- David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American illusionist, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful illusionist in history. Copperfield's television specials have won 21 Emmy Awards of a total 38 nominations.
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- Overview (5) Mini Bio (1) The great American escape artist and magician Houdini (immortalized by a memorable performance by Tony Curtis in the eponymous 1953 film) was born Erich Weiss on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, though he often gave his birthplace as Appleton, Wisconsin, where he was raised.
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History of film Mini Bio (1). Siegmund Lubin was born on April 20, 1851 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for The Great Train Robbery (1904), A Trip to the Moon (1914) and I.B.Dam and the Whole Dam Family (1905). He was married to Annie Abrams. He died on September 10, 1923 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.nterest in optical instruments led to work with camera equipment and a subsequent fascination with motion pictures. Made his first films by 1896, as well as selling cinema equipment and later running his own chain of picture theatres. Became a member of the Motion Pictures Patents Company (Edison Trust).
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- 3. Vaudeville Was Big. Early animators were drawn to the vaudeville acts that were around in the Roaring Twenties. These acts had over-the-top facial expressions and actions, as well as blackface, loose clothing and gloves, and inspired the creation of early cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat and Bimbo.
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Development of Motion Picture Mid-Term American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face.
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The Great Harry Houdini As a stage name, Ehrich Weiss became Harry Houdini by adding an ìiî to the last name of his idol, French magician Robert Houdin. Harry is simply an Americanized version of his nickname, Ehrie. At 17, Ehrich, now known as Harry Houdini, left his family to pursue his magic career.
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Harry Houdini Harry Houdini was an Austro-Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as Harry Handcuff Houdini on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it. In 1904, thous
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- Sentence Examples. 5-24 he is portrayed as a famous sorcerer in Samaria who had been converted to Christianity by Philip. His personality has been the subject of considerable discussion. Sorcerer was the sire of Soothsayer (1808), Comus (1809), and Smolensko (181o). Students of Tallquist's Maklu series of incantation or of the surpu series edited by Zimmern (in his Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Babylonischen Religion) will recollect the images over which the priest sorcerer recites his formulae. 5-24 he is portrayed as a famous sorcerer in Samaria who had
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- Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as the world's first street art disaster movie , made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.bservers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D , a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack, an English musical group.
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- Birthplace: Landau, Germany. Best known as: 19th century cartoonist who drew Santa. Illustrator Thomas Nast was the first American celebrity cartoonist, famous for helping to turn out New York's corrupt politicians and for creating peristent iconographic images of Santa Claus.
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- Good artists steal.. - Pablo Picasso. Comical and fantasy were also the types of works that Picasso focused on, as his career moved forward. Graphic arts, ceramics, and sculptures, were the methods that he uses most, as opposed to painting and etched works, which were the predominant choices early on in his career.ablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that occurred over this period. Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most distinct style and eye for artistic creation.
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Trivia In the 1990s book Fantasia, John Culhane describes how he was told that members of the Disney staff were busy listening to a 78-RPM album of Toscanini conducting 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice', but quickly hid it when they heard that Stokowski was actually on his way to the studio.ugosi spent several days at the Disney studios, where he was filmed doing evil, demon-like poses for the animators to use as a reference. However, Bill Tytla, the animator in charge of Chernobog, was dissatisfied with Lugosi's performance, and had sequence director Wilfred Jackson pose for the cameras.
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Double Whopper with Cheese (No Bun) There are 590 calories in a 1 sandwich serving of Burger King Double Whopper with Cheese (No Bun). Calorie breakdown: 72% fat, 5% carbs, 23% protein.
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Biography Overview (3) Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international film star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous film series. He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain.