harry houdini

     

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1998-10-30_FJ.jpg" target="_blank">Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.</a>) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess

Trivia about harry houdini

  • In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface
  • In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself
  • He's the performer seen here[AKA Ehrich Weiss]
  • The legendary Dai Vernon was known as "The Man Who Fooled" this escape king
  • In 1953 Tony Curtis portrayed this magician in a highly fictionalized account of his life
  • In 1924, 2 years before his death, he published "A Magician Among the Spirits"
  • This escape artist who died in 1926 is called the "World's Handcuff King" in a new book by Kenneth Silverman
  • This American conjurer, escapologist & Freemason was born in Budapest in 1874 as Ehrich Weiss
  • "The Handcuff King"
  • 1953:Tony Curtis as this magician
  • There was no escaping death for this magician; he died on Halloween night in 1926
  • In 1924, he wrote "A Magician Among the Spirits", debunking mind readers & mediums
  • 1926: There's no escape for this magician who dies following a rupture of his appendix
  • This entertainer earned the nickname "The Handcuff King" for his ability to escape manacles
  • This turn-of-the-century man began his career as a teenager doing card magic as "Eric The Great"
  • Sir Arthur was a spiritualist, but he faced opposition from this man who wrote "A Magician Among the Spirits"
  • A turn of the century boast went "Nothing on Earth can hold" this performer "a prisoner"