Joseph Dunninger, known as "The Amazing Dunninger", was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time.
16 Facts About Joseph Dunninger
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Joseph Dunninger was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television.
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Joseph Dunninger headlined throughout the Keith-Orpheum Circuit, and was much in demand for private entertainment.
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Joseph Dunninger claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena.
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Joseph Dunninger wrote the book Inside the Medium's Cabinet which exposed the tricks of mediumship.
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Joseph Dunninger exposed how the indian rope trick could be performed by camera trickery.
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In 1935, Joseph Dunninger attended a seance of the fraudulent medium Emerson Gilbert.
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Joseph Dunninger's testimony was used in court against the medium.
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Joseph Dunninger was a good friend to many notables in the magic community including Harry Houdini, Francis Martinka and Tony Slydini.
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Joseph Dunninger maintained a lifelong friendship with author of The Shadow, Walter B Gibson, who guest wrote or cowrote a number of books for Dunninger on magic, psychic phenomena and spiritualism.
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Joseph Dunninger acted as technical adviser as just "Dunninger" in the 1953 biopic film Houdini starring Tony Curtis in the title role.
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Joseph Dunninger appeared on radio starting in the 1920s, and had his own weekly show in 1943.
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Joseph Dunninger was featured on television frequently in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Joseph Dunninger died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
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Joseph Dunninger self-published many of his works, and others were published by inventor Hugo Gernsback.
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Joseph Dunninger wrote articles in Science and Invention, Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics, Fate, Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines.