![]() Houdini had to go to the hospital, he had 2 surgeries, but he died that night. He was barely able to get through that nights show. One of them punched Houdini in the stomach. A few days later, he was reading a newspaper in his hotel in detroit when three men came up to him. ![]() Houdini, was unprepared and was in alot of pain. While he was in montreal, a mysterious young man punched him in the stomach 4:5 times. They made secrete meeting places to talked by telephone, and she called him in her diary “Magic Lover.” They kept giving each other letters until 1924, when he stopped writing. In 1916, Houdini was interested by Charmian London, the widow of author Jack London. As he got more popular and made lots of money, he often was gone a lot on tours and that could have been his chance to get with any women he wanted. She assitied him onstage and helping him in his stunts. They got married at a young age, and Bess wanted to not just be married but be partners, so she became his assistant. “He was an attractive man.” He also had a “strange relationship” with his wife, Bess. “He had what women wanted.”He had what women wanted: He had power, and he didn’t have to go by the rules of everybody else,” Kalush said. It Was obvious that women would fall for him since he is so famous. Between 19, Houdini appeared in movies and shows like “The Master Mystery,” “The Grim Game,” “Mystery Island” and “The Man From Beyond.” “The films did extend his fame,” said Kalush, “but by the time his first film was released, his fame transcended being a normal, formal entertainer in the culture.” Houdini was a leader that everyone wanted to follow. He photographed his stunts, but didn’t start writing movie scripts til 1916. His first film was made in France in 1902. ![]() “Amazes the Detectives,” headlined a Chicago newspaper. He disappeared from a metal box that was also emerged in water a few minutes later without cuffs. He visited police stations challenging them to get out of any handcuffs they had. He gave up spiritualism he’d rather fail than take this so-called dirty money.” When he was traveling with a circus, Houdini thought of a way to attract people. He was taking care of his mother with his money, but he didn’t feel right. “But he realized that he wasn’t honoring his oath to his (deceased) father. “At first Houdini had success as a fraudulent spiritualist,” Kalush said. He became Harry Houdini, he changed his last name to houdini in honor of Robert Houdin, the pioneering French magician. immigration, he also lacked acting abilities. He realized that his name, Erik Weisz at birth, changed to Ehrich Weiss because of U.S. Houdini’s father had a first cousin who was a famous magician in Europe, so he started early in magic. They were able to find “circumstantial evidence” that Houdini had spied for the United States and England in the early 20th century. William Kalush, himself a magician, said that he and Sloman, an author, did a 2 year to researching and writing the book. His father was a lawyer then when they moved to america he became a teacher. ![]() Ever the illusionist, Houdini made everyone think in his professional years that he had been born in Appleton on April 6, 1874, but he really was born on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary, and became a U.S. 31, 1926, was made into a book called “The Secret Life of Harry Houdini, The Making of America’s First Superhero,” by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. He also surprised people by walking through walls and making an elephant disappear. For most of 20 years, Houdini was in the newspaper a lot with amazing escapes from being shackled to confined in a box to put in water. ![]() He stared as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. ![]()
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