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Joseph Dunninger
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Dunninger began as a magician then later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the people Dunninger preformed for were six Presidents, Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger was a debunker of occult phenomena who modestly assessed his own skills as "Any three-year-old could do it .... with 30 years practice."
Joseph Dunninger died of Parkinson's disease in Cliffside Park, N.J.
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[edit] Radio
Dunninger performed his mentalism on the radio in 1929 and from 1943-1944.
[edit] TV
The Dunninger Show on NBC
The Amazing Dunninger on ABC (May 9 - October 10, 1956) His act consisted of reading the thoughts of audience members and visiting special guests.
Dunninger's final series of programs for ABC-TV, recorded in 1971, were never broadcast. By that time he was suffering from Parkinson's disease and could not summon up the strength of presentation he'd previously displayed.
[edit] Books (by or about)
- Dunninger's Tricks De Luxe (1918)
- Dunninger's Tricks Unique (1918)
- Dunninger's Master Methods of Hypnotism (1923)
- Popular Magic (1926)
- Universal Second Sight Mysteries (1927)
- Houdini's Spirit Exposes and Dunninger's Psychical Investigations (1928)
- Popular Magic Vol. II (1929)
- Popular Magic and Card Tricks (1929)
- Inside the Medium's Cabinet (1935)
- How to Make a Ghost Walk (1936)
- What's On Your Mind (1944)
- 100 Houdini Tricks You Can Do (1954)
- The Art of Thought Reading (1956)
- Magic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations of Houdini and Dunninger (1967)
- Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic (1967)
- Dunninger's Secrets as told to Walter Gibson (1974)
- Dunninger's Monument to Magic (1974)
- Dunninger's Book of Magic (1979)
