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Ten Little-Known Facts About Doug Henning

Sure, you know all about Doug's myriad successes on Broadway and television, but you probably didn't know . . .

  1. He was a junior competing badminton champion.

  2. He had a pet skunk that he walked on a leash.

  3. He loved music, but was completely tone deaf (one of his favorite songs, which he frequently sang, was Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons”).

  4. He was a competent hypnotist during his college years.

  5. His favorite breakfast was a “Dutch Baby,” a big, puffy, egg-based pancake.

  6. He was chauffeured by John Gray, who would go on to write and sell 45 million copies of his Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus books.

  7. He suffered from a collapsed lung, which made doing Houdini's water torture cell that much more difficult.

  8. He was spokesman for two different camera companies--Minolta and Polaroid.

  9. He hired a struggling comedian to be his opening act in Lake Tahoe―his name was David Letterman.

  10. As an adult, he would frequently buy his clothes in the boys department.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

  

 
 

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