Card Mondor was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n magician and stage performer. A one time assistant for the Great Virgil , he gained fame as a performer in the United States

United States

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, most notably for entertaining troops during World War II

World War II

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. He was featured on the cover of Genii (magazine)

Genii (magazine)

Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine is the longest-running independent magazine devoted to magic and magicians in the history of the art. It was founded by William Larsen, Sr. in 1936, and run by his descendents until 1998, when it was sold to The Genii Corporation, headed by well-known magic author...

 in April 1947. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was involved in exploitation films, at one time working for Kroger Babb

Kroger Babb

Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...

, presenting his film Mom and Dad

Mom and Dad

Mom and Dad is a feature-length 1945 film directed by William Beaudine, and largely produced by the exploitation filmmaker and presenter Kroger Babb. Mom and Dad is considered the most successful film within its genre of "sex hygiene" films...

and eventually securing the rights to distribute the film in Australia and New Zealand

New Zealand

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In his later years, Mondor was in charge of Aladdin's Magic Shop, in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Australia and wrote an autobiography

Autobiography

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, Dreams, Schemes, Nightmares and Illusion prior to his death in 2001.