WILD ABOUT HARRY

Our friend Dean Carnegie at The Magic Detective Podcast has an episode devoted to Bess Houdini. Some stories here I've not heard. Enjoy...

Here's a fun one that's new to me. I'll let it speak for itself. Bangor Daily Commercial , Sept. 27, 1921. By the way, $12,500 i...

Today is Harry and Bess Houdini's 130th wedding anniversary. The couple married in Coney Island on June 22, 1894. To mark the occasion, ...

While reading Houdini: His Life Story by Harold Kellock recently, the following paragraph jumped out at me as containing an intriguing myste...

I'm marking Harry and Bess Houdini's 129th anniversary on my Patreon today with a very special rarity from the Harry Ransom Center ....

To mark Harry and Bess's 128th wedding anniversary today, here's a rarity from the McCord Museum . As I've noted in a few posts,...

Last year  MyHeritage developed an AI tool that brought old photographs to life. It's was wild tech that allowed us some fun with Houdi...

Our friend Roger Dreyer from Houdini Revealed (formally the Houdini Museum of New York) shares with us a remarkable new acquisition with a ...

Today I continue my scene by scene dissection of Paramount's 1953 biopic Houdini , in which I attempt to make the case that it's mu...

Let's kick off the month with a terrific illustration that appeared 112 years ago in the September 1, 1907 San Francisco Examiner . This...

It was 100 years ago today that Harry and Bess Houdini celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary with a gala dinner at the Alexandria...

Welcome to another year of WILD ABOUT HARRY. Lets kick off 2019 with a look back at what Houdini himself was up to 100 years ago. Houdin...

Here's a terrific article from the April 27, 1916 Baltimore Evening Sun . This ran the day after Houdini's suspended straitjacket e...

Recently Tom Morello shared with me with a remarkable treasure that he has owned for over 40 years. It's the famous group photo of the H...

There has long been a rumor that Bess Houdini and Edward Saint were secretly married. Magician Arnold Furst, who knew the couple well, b...

Today is the 123rd wedding anniversary of Harry and Bess Houdini. The couple married on June 22, 1894 in Coney Island where they were bot...

When Harry and Bess set out on their showbiz careers in 1894, they billed themselves as "The Houdinis." But by the time they achie...

Today is the 122nd wedding anniversary of Harry and Bess Houdini. The couple married on June 22, 1894. Or did they? In recent years, histori...

The story of Bess getting stuck in the Metamorphosis trunk is one that appears in most Houdini biographies. It was also amusingly dramatized...

Harry and Bess Houdini first met while they were performers at Coney Island in 1894; Harry as part of the Brothers Houdini and Bess with a...