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The movie The Prestige (2006) features Scarlett Johansson as an assistant to a magician who is involved in a deadly feud with a competitor. In addition actress Piper Perabo plays the wife and performing partner of another magician. [10] The movie Rough Magic (1995) features as its central character a magician's assistant played by Bridget Fonda ...
Darnell worked as a dancer and stewardess [4] before marrying magician Mark Wilson in 1952. [5] The role that most defined Darnell's public image was as a magician's assistant in Wilson's television series The Magic Land of Allakazam, which premiered in October 1960 and ran for four years nationally in the United States. The series has been ...
A performance of The Devil's Torture Chamber by magician Guy Kent on a British TV show from the 1970s. The Devil's Torture Chamber is a magic stage illusion of the classic type involving a female magician's assistant in a large box and is probably best categorised as a penetration or restoration-type illusion.
Box of Pain (Magician sticks a sword and daggers through an assistant's head in a box) Water Torture Escape; Episode Three May 5, 1998 (US) October 3, 2010 (HK) Bed of Spikes (Death of Cora) The Stretch (Magician stretches an assistant's arms & legs to the breaking point) Daggers of Death (Knife-throwing at an assisant while strapped to a wheel)
Helen started working as a magician's assistant at the Magic Castle. [6]In 1987, she was the first woman in the world who completed for the first time the fear-inducing underwater act known as Houdini's Water Torture Escape, created by the legendary Harry Houdini.
The Magician's Assistant is a novel by American author Ann Patchett, published in 1997 by Harcourt. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction . The narrative follows a young woman named Sabine in the aftermath of her husband's death.
In circus and vaudeville acts, a target girl is a female assistant in "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archery or sharpshooting. The assistant stands in front of a target board or is strapped to a moving board and the impalement artist throws knives or shoots projectiles so as to hit the board and miss the assistant.
Miller became highly regarded among professional magic performers and is widely cited as one of the all-time great magic assistants. [6] She features in the 2008 documentary movie, Women in Boxes, which explores the vital role of assistants in magic. [7] [8] In 1993 she received the Dragon Award presented by the J. Marberger Stuart Foundation. [9]