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[[Larry Jennings]] (February 17, 1933 - October 17, 1997) was born in Detroit, Michigan.
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[[Larry Jennings]] (February 17, 1933 - October 17, 1997) was born in Detroit, Michigan. {{Youtube Thumb|bK3sYSoihhU|400|'''Larry Jennings - Open Travellers/Invisible Palm'''}}  {{Youtube Thumb|zWsYxAnuqGQ|400|'''Larry Jennings - Oil and Water'''}} {{Youtube Thumb|2ic9qpdN478|400|'''Larry Jennings - Cups and Balls'''}} 
  
 
Growing up, Larry divided his time between staying with his father in Detroit and his mother in Georgia.  Larry joined the United States Navy when was only 16. While in the Navy, a fellow sailor showed Larry a trick and he kept pestering the sailor to teach him. After his discharge, Larry moved to Detroit where he meets and eventually marries a French-Canadian woman named Nina Chauvin who was living in Windsor, Ontario.  Larry worked as a combustion engineer.  
 
Growing up, Larry divided his time between staying with his father in Detroit and his mother in Georgia.  Larry joined the United States Navy when was only 16. While in the Navy, a fellow sailor showed Larry a trick and he kept pestering the sailor to teach him. After his discharge, Larry moved to Detroit where he meets and eventually marries a French-Canadian woman named Nina Chauvin who was living in Windsor, Ontario.  Larry worked as a combustion engineer.  
{{Youtube Thumb|bK3sYSoihhU|400|'''Larry Jennings performing Open Travellers/Invisible Palm'''}}
 
 
 
In 1956, while in Windsor, [[Ron Wilson]] moved across the hall from Larry. It is Ron who introduced Larry to the magic of [[Ed Marlo]] and [[Dai Vernon]]. Larry became a member of the [[Windsor Magic Circle]].
 
In 1956, while in Windsor, [[Ron Wilson]] moved across the hall from Larry. It is Ron who introduced Larry to the magic of [[Ed Marlo]] and [[Dai Vernon]]. Larry became a member of the [[Windsor Magic Circle]].
  

Revision as of 03:22, 7 July 2008

Larry Jennings (February 17, 1933 - October 17, 1997) was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Larry Jennings - Open Travellers/Invisible Palm

Larry Jennings - Oil and Water

Larry Jennings - Cups and Balls

Growing up, Larry divided his time between staying with his father in Detroit and his mother in Georgia. Larry joined the United States Navy when was only 16. While in the Navy, a fellow sailor showed Larry a trick and he kept pestering the sailor to teach him. After his discharge, Larry moved to Detroit where he meets and eventually marries a French-Canadian woman named Nina Chauvin who was living in Windsor, Ontario. Larry worked as a combustion engineer. In 1956, while in Windsor, Ron Wilson moved across the hall from Larry. It is Ron who introduced Larry to the magic of Ed Marlo and Dai Vernon. Larry became a member of the Windsor Magic Circle.

In the early 1960s, Larry meets Dai Vernon for the first time at a convention in Cleveland. In 1961 at the Columbus MagiFest, Larry meets fellow cardman Bruce Cervon and they become fast friends.

In 1964, Karrell Fox tells Larry about the Magic Castle. Knowing that Dai Vernon was living in Hollywood, Larry quits his job and moves to California where he gets a job working for Leo Behnke’s father in the plumbing repair business. Larry becomes friends with Dai Vernon and starts to study magic under him. Also during this time, Larry, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Ron Wilson, and Tony Giorgio would regularly play poker with the provision that you could cheat. However, if you got caught you would have to forfeit your pot and leave the table.

In 1969, Larry travels with Dai Vernon on his lecture tour of Japan and meets Hideo Kato who acts as the interpreter.

Larry and Nina get divorced in the early 1970s. In the mid 1970s, Larry meets his second wife, Geri, in Los Angeles. They married and moved to Lake Tahoe, where he opened his own plumbing company but eventually they also get divorced.

In 1979, Larry was the guest of honor at the annual Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic.

In the early 1980s Larry sells his business in Lake Tahoe and moves back to California (Newport Beach) to work at the Magic Island as the resident magician. He is also placed in charge of booking, but when he tries to get higher pay for the magicians. He ends up quitting when the management refuses. Larry moves in with James Patton. Jim convinces Larry to do another lecture and in 1982 Larry lectures at the Magic Castle.

In 1986, Larry and Louis Falanga start L&L Publishing. Larry weds his third wive, B.J. on December 28th, 1990, with Michael Skinner as the best man.

Larry was awarded the Creative Fellowship by the Academy of Magical Arts in 1995.


Publications

  • Larry’s first published ideas, “A Snappy Lift” and “Lift No. 2,” appear in a letter from Dai Vernon to The Gen magazine (September 1964)
  • Lecture Notes: On Card And Coin Handling (July 1967). These notes are written by his wife, Nina.
  • A collection of Larry’s magic appears in Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Secrets Of Card Magic (1967)
  • Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Lecture Notes, also written by his wife Nina (1970).
  • Larry Jennings' one-man issue of Genii (May 1970). The effects are written by Jules Lenier.
  • Larry Jennings - No Card Magic Nyuumon by Hideo Kato (1970). Written in Japanese, the book has yet to be translated into English.
  • Karl Fulves publishes a special two-part issue of Epilogue featuring Larry Jenning. (1975)
  • "Stabbed Coincidence" and "The Coin And Beer Can" effects released by Jeff Busby (1977)
  • Larry Jennings On Card And Coin Handling Book by Jeff Busby (1977)
  • A Visit With Larry Jennings lecture notes (1982)
  • The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings (1986)
  • Neoclassics (1987)
  • The Cardwright (1988)
  • During the 1990s there are two new sets of lecture notes and five videotapes released.
  • Up in Smoke by Larry Jennings (2005)
  • Larry Jennings - A Private Lesson, DVD
  • Larry Jennings Classic Magic, DVD
  • Jennings ’67 by Richard Kaufman (1997)

Future Books

  • Mr. Jennings Takes it Easy by Richard Kaufman
  • Mr. Jennings Takes It Tough by Richard Kaufman

References