Gloria Dea, touted as the primary magician to carry out on what would change into the Las Vegas Strip within the early Nineteen Forties, has died on the age of 100.
Dea moved from California to Las Vegas in 1980. Famed magician David Copperfield befriended her in her later years, based on the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal.
“Gloria was superb. She was charming humorous and fascinating,” Copperfield informed the newspaper. “And in Vegas, as a younger magician, she began all of it. It was an honour to know her.”
Dea was 19 when she carried out at El Rancho Vegas on 14 Might 1941.
Her present on the Roundup Room is the primary recorded look by a magician in Las Vegas, the Evaluate-Journal reported.
“There was no Strip, actually, in these days,” Dea informed the newspaper final August when she turned 100. “We had the Final Frontier and the El Rancho Vegas. They'd simply began constructing the Flamingo.”
Dea carried out magic that evening and extra.
“I additionally danced. I did the rumba as a result of it was troublesome to maintain establishing all my magic stuff,” Dea mentioned.
After relocating to California, Dea appeared in a number of motion pictures together with Mexicana in 1945, King of the Congo, starring Buster Crabbe, in 1952, and Ed Wooden’s notorious Plan 9 From Outer Area in 1957.
“I used to be within the Saturday matinees, for the children,” she mentioned. “‘Plan 9 From Outer Area’ was the worst film of all time. … I had enjoyable making it although.”
However that marked the tip of Dea’s leisure profession. She bought insurance coverage after which new and used vehicles for a dealership within the San Fernando Valley, changing into a high gross sales rep.
In accordance with the Evaluate-Journal, Dea was an solely youngster and didn't have any quick household. Her husband Sam Anzalone, a former California automotive gross sales govt, died in January 2022.
Dea was scheduled to be inducted into the UNLV School of Positive Arts Corridor of Fame. These plans will go ahead as deliberate; Dea shall be inducted by Copperfield in a presentation earlier than the total program.
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