Gloria Dea, 1st magician on Las Vegas Strip, dies at age 100.
The occasion was attended by David Copperfield, Teller of Penn and Teller, and other headliners and bigwigs across the Las Vegas magic community at the Westgate Resort and Casino.
Magician Gloria Dea is honored fellow magicians, including David Copperfield and Teller, during her 100th birthday celebration at the Westgate in Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Dea, touted as the first magician to perform on what would become the Las Vegas Strip in the early 1940s, has died. One of Dea's caretakers said she died Saturday, March 18, 2023, at her Las Vegas residence. She was 100.
According to the Nevada State Museum, visitors were offered variety shows, and Dea was one of the other acts in an evening series debuting at the El Rancho. Dea “completely mystified the audience with her legerdemain,” wrote a critic on May 15, 1941, for the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, praising her act as the hit of the show.
Copperfield and other magicians have collected, preserved and restored some of her precious props and costumes, which are close to a century old.
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