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unusual facts about Houdini



Dean Carnegie

Later a performance of the Houdini Water Torture Cell by magician Doug Henning helped to seal his fascination of the art of magic.

Death Defying Acts

When he says he does, they become romantically involved before Houdini leaves for his last performance, in Montreal.

Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour.

Emil Für

He has exhibited his work at the International Festival of Visual Arts in Acre in Israel; in Saloniki in Greece; at the Budapest Gallery and the "DEPO" Jewish Museum in Budapest,and the exhibition "The Machagodzilla Rabbit rides the Rocket Horse-Bela Lugosi and Houdini's Breakfast" in the Spiro Ark, London, as well as at the Association of Hungarian Painters and Israelis Artis.

Fred Van Buren

Andrew Van Buren More recently concentrates much of his time working on cruise liners & in the Middle East, 2009 was spent during the summer performing in the House of Illusions Spiegeltent show in Dubai & in 2013 worked as magic advisor / consultant providing the magic for the hugely successful Houdini the Play UK tour.

Johnnie Valentino

Intimate Portraits, Monuments to Freedom Series, Emergency Call, Portrait of Courage, Strange Wilderness, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, World's Greatest Magic Show's 1, 2, & 3, Houdini, Hunter's Blood, Dangerous Curves, Iron Triangle Kids Incorporated, First and Ten, Elephant's Diary and The Education of Alison Tate.

Kim Hoorweg

The bandleaders are known from their participation in bands like Drums United, the Houdini’s, Nueva Manteca, Orkater and the formation works together with musicians like Marco Borsato, Raul Midón, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Candy Dulfer en Gino Vanelli.

Magic Towne House

Opening a magic show venue in New York City had been a dream of many famous magicians, such as Houdini, Thurston and Doug Henning.

Mina Crandon

In 1933, Walter Franklin Prince wrote an article for the Scientific American that claimed Malcolm Bird intended on publishing a confession in the ASPR in 1930 admitting that an act of fraud had taken place to trick Houdini in 1924.

Mysterious Stranger

In "The Three Magi", he acknowledges Robert-Houdin, Max Malini and Alexander Herrmann as major influences; in "Confidence", he cites Orson Welles and Titanic Thompson as inspiration for his street magic persona; and in "Ehrich Weiss", he celebrates the man we know as Houdini.

Nancy Drew: The Final Scene

Eustacia Andropov - Eustacia is the widow of one of Harry Houdini's cousins.

Nick Bertozzi

Bertozzi also illustrated Houdini: The Handcuff King (published by Hyperion), which was written by Jason Lutes.

Predicament escape

Classic examples include the Table of Death, Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell, Princess Tenko's escape from an exploding boat and the Upside Down Suspended Straitjacket escape, in which a performer is suspended high in the air from a burning rope.

Project Houdini

Project Houdini is a computer program used by the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo

Shaggy tries to use the staff against the gryphon by the power of "Houdini, the Wizard of Oz, and the English kid with the glasses", meaning Harry Potter.

Theodore Weiss

Theodore Hardeen (1876–1945), brother of Houdini, who went by the name of Theodore Weiss as a child


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