You Asked For It 1953. Malikova, Park Car, Cleo Moore, Dante the Magician. ABC Network.

Hosted by Art Baker, You Asked For It was a popular television show where viewers would request interesting things they would like to see. A circus performer named Malikova performs a dangerous high wire act blindfolded without a safety net. Inventor Brooks Walker shows his invention the "Park Car". See a 1953 Cadillac that parks practically by itself! Director Hugo Haas introduces a new discovery, blonde bombshell Cleo Moore, from screen test to stardom. See her screen test and behind the scenes footage. Art Baker can't take his eyes off Cleo Moore as she exercises for the audience. What a pinup girl! A scene from her latest film "One Girl's Confession" is shown. Finally, famous Dante the Magician, performs his specialty, the "Sawing a Woman in Half" illusion. Commercials for Skippy Peanut Butter included. From a 16mm kinescope film.

[@ulexite-tv]

I came here to see Dante saw a woman in half -- bravo! bravo! -- but as soon as the show started, i remembered watching it on TV as a child and how the the act by Zenka Malikova (Zdenka Malik) at Knott's Berry Farm had frightened me for her sake. So i looked her up and i am glad to say that she was born in Czechoslovakia in 1916, was happily married, became a naturalized U. S. citizen, appeared in the movie "Big Top" in 1952, had children, retired from the high wire to work for the Birdville school district, retired from that career as well, and died in 2011 in Forth Worth, Texas, at the age of 95. Whew!

[@z512345]

Absolutely this is the best sawing a woman in half illusion of all time.

[@durandjohnson1321]

Beautiful '51 Cadillac

[@santafejack]

The sawed in half segment was surprisingly well done. As a kid, my family and I watched this show every week. Art Baker had some really great acts on the show. Thanks for posting this long-forgotten show.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Our Pleasure!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Great show, always remembered it. Malikova was sensational. Thank you.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Yes, her performance is breathtaking!

[@GVallaBertini]

My aunt/Godmother. Wonderful person too!

[@manypearls7193]

WOW - thanks so much for finding this and posting it. Cleo Moore has quite a cult following with movie buffs but she made very few tv appearances and only one, "Remember to Love" circulates. Great to see a couple of shots too from "Thy Neighbor's Wife" which is her most elusive movie.

[@Doug41160]

Cleo Moore was one of the all time sexiest ladies from the good old days of Hollywood.

[@edheroshimo1443]

Very nice sawing a woman in half, better than what we have nowadays.

[@fromthesidelines]

29:40- I'll bet you're wondering what *this* slide represented? Well, that was for KABC-TV's local telecast of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN", on late Sunday afternoons. It premiered in syndication on the West Coast on February 1, 1953; New York viewers didn't see it until WABC-TV began carrying it on April 1, 1953 [Wednesdays, 6:15pm].

[@fromthesidelines]

Cleo Moore appeared in many of actor/writer/producer/director Hugo Haas' films during the '50s {"One Girl's Confession" [in which she appeared with Burt Mustin at 18:05], "Thy Neighbor's Wife", "Bait", "The Other Woman", et. al.}.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Mr. Mustin was a mere lad of 69, at the time, and still a relative newcomer to acting, which he took up after retiring from his "day" job.

[@kennethanway7979]

Jif is best... I've tried them all! 😋

[@mtpascoe]

Most of what was said about the invention of the Sawing is true. As Harry Jansen, he did invent this version of P.T.'s Sawing for his employer Howard Thurston as well as the man who commissioned it, Horace Goldin. This would be the equivalent to Thomas Edison's lab in the sense that Edison would come up with the idea, and the men in his lab actually came up with he details. So in a sense Harry Jansen (Dante) did invent this version of it. The method Goldin came up with would not have fooled anyone and the Sawing A Woman In Half would not have been a classic.

[@Vladislaw81]

Malikova certainly was an immigrant from Russia. I didn’t find anything about her. Does anybody know anything about her?

[@cheekoo911]

Oh...