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Beatrice Houdini. Beatrice or Bess Houdini was born Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner on January 23, 1876, in Brooklyn, New York. Like her famous husband, Bess came from a large German speaking immigrant family and was bitten by the showbiz bug in her teens. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she ...
4 de mar. de 2018 · Rebecca: Bess met Charmian at the Orpheum Theater in Oakland, California, November 15, 1915. Houdini was performing his Chinese Water Torture Chamber Escape. Jack London had brought his young daughter to see the show the day before, and brought Charmian to see the Great Houdini. Houdini and Jack London were the two most famous men of their time ...
23 de ene. de 2022 · To celebrate Bess Houdini's 146th birthday today, here are some excerpts from terrific interesting article by Sally MacDougall called "What Magicians' Wives Think of MAGIC". This appeared in The Tacoma Daily Ledger on July 29, 1928. "My husband thought I was clever, and you don't suppose I was going to disillusionize him," Mrs. Houdini said.
Bess Houdini (January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943), whose real name was Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, was the stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she met Houdini and married him a week later. Bess and Harry worked as The Houdinis for several years before Houdini hit it big as The Handcuff King.
22 de ene. de 2024 · Bess Houdini held yearly séances on Halloween for ten years after Houdini's death, but Houdini never appeared. In 1936, after a last unsuccessful séance on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel, she put out the candle that she had kept burning beside a photograph of Houdini since his death, later (1943) saying, "ten years is long enough to wait for any man."
11 de feb. de 2023 · This is the real Mrs. Harry Houdini (Bess) in the 1938 film Religious Racketeers aka Mystic Circle Murder.
1 de oct. de 2014 · 2. They were all about that séance. For 10 years after Houdini’s death, his wife, Bess, attempted to channel him during a séance that took place on his day of death, Oct. 31. Despite not being ...
