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The movie Rough Magic (1995) features as its central character a magician's assistant played by Bridget Fonda. [11] One of the central characters in the movie Leprechaun 3 is a magician's assistant called Tammy Larsen, played by actress Lee Armstrong, who appears in stage costume for much of the duration. [12]
Magician Jeffrey Atkins and Paul Daniels performing The Radium Girl with an assistant called Jackie on The Paul Daniels Magic Show. The Radium Girl is a stage illusion of the classic type involving a female assistant in a large box and is probably best categorised as a penetration or restoration-type illusion. Its origins and history are much ...
The performance begins with the magician being joined by a spectator (who might be an audience member or the host of a show of which this illusion is a part). A large upright cabinet is presented. It is just large enough to contain a person and has a stylised sillouette of a woman on the front. A female assistant is introduced. It is explained ...
A public show ‘Phauna - Grand Conjuring Performance’ at the Warminster Athenaeum in Warminster, Wiltshire, 11 and 12 January 1887, included the illusion by Mr F I Flower of sawing his magician’s assistant, Miss Sylvester in half. This could claim to be the earliest verifiable record of this act.
The Zig-Zag Girl illusion is a stage illusion akin to the more famous sawing a woman in half illusion. In the Zig-Zag illusion, a magician divides an assistant into thirds, only to have them emerge from the illusion at the end of the performance completely unharmed. It was invented in 1965 by magician Robert Harbin. [1] [2]
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 ...
Dorothy Dietrich (born April 1, 1948 [1]) is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth (although Adelaide Herrmann reputedly did this earlier) and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope.
The magician presents a stand, placed stage centre, which supports a sword in a vertical position with the sharpened tip pointing upwards. An assistant is introduced and the magician (sometimes with the help of additional assistants) picks her up and balances her in a supine position on the tip of the sword. The assistant holds her body rigidly ...