The Magical Life of Marshall Brodien: Creator of TV Magic Cards and Wizzo the Wizard

ISBN-13: 9780786431823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 271 str.

John A. Moehring

Opis

This unique biography details the life of magician Marshall Brodien, most remembered for his long-running career as televisions Wizzo the Wizard on WGN-TVs Bozos Circus and The Bozo Show. Beginning in the late 1940s, when Brodien was a young magician in his first job as a Chicago magic shop demonstrator, it then recounts Brodiens steady rise to show-business success, including detailed accounts of his work as a performer at the Magic Lounge in Cicero, as a nightclub hypnotist in Chicagos posh Cairo Supper Club, and the work concludes with an examination of Brodiens current career as one of the most successful marketers of magic sets in the U.S.