.susanorlean remembers Gloria Dea (1922-2023), the first magician known to have performed on the Las Vegas Strip.
One magic trick that Gloria Dea did recently, before a small audience of fans gathered in her bedroom, was to apply lipstick without using a mirror. She stayed inside the lines, which is hard at any age, but at the time she happened to be ninety-nine years old. Dea had performed more traditional magic—mostly sleight of hand, with a specialty in billiard-ball manipulation—since she was a child.
After working a few years in Las Vegas, Dea secured a contract with Columbia Pictures, and began a mid-list movie career, appearing in such creations as “Mexicana,” “King of the Congo,” “The Prodigal,” and the worst movie ever made, “Review-Journal Her last film appearance was to be a spoof of the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor epic, “Cleopatra.” At that time, Dea owned a pink 1962 Cadillac, which she had outfitted with a twelve-inch television between the seats. One day, when she was on the set and the car was parked in the studio lot, someone stole the television. She was so disgusted that she quit the film—and the film business—on the spot.
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