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    Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Wilhelmina Beatrice...
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    1894, Houdini met a fellow performer, Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner. Bess was initially courted by Dash, but she and Houdini married, with Bess replacing...
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  • follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions. In the 1890s, young Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis) is performing...
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  • mastery of illusion. Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini, world-famous magician Kristen Connolly as Bess Houdini, Harry's wife Evan Jones as Jim Collins, Harry's...
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    A&E Houdini miniseries premiered with 3.7 million viewers, Connolly plays Bess Houdini with Academy Award-winning Adrien Brody playing Harry Houdini. Connolly...
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    Film Festival to positive reviews. She made her stage debut in Houdini as Bess Houdini, which toured the UK in 2013. Lynch starred in the indie drama...
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  • up Houdini in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was a famous magician and escape artist. Houdini may also refer to: Bess Houdini...
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  • title was changed to The Great Houdini. Paul Michael Glaser as Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) Sally Struthers as Bess Houdini Ruth Gordon as Cecilia Weiss...
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    seances at the Houdini Museum in Scranton are often attended by the Houdini family, who are the closest living relatives of Bess Houdini, making this the...
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  • Duke of Norfolk Bess Houdini (1876–1943), stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini Bess Johnson (c. 1902 – 1975), American actress Bess Meredyth (1890–1969)...
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    Arthur Ford (psychic) (category Harry Houdini)
    1926, Bess Houdini began attending seances conducted by Ford. Author Andrew Lycett suggests that Arthur Conan Doyle encouraged a "vulnerable" Bess to believe...
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  • Swansea Grand The original cast were: Theo Houdini - Stuart Brennan Bess Houdini - Evanna Lynch Harry Houdini - Jamie Nichols Martin Beck - Mark Lyminster...
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  • magician. Johnathon Schaech as Harry Houdini Emile Hirsch as Young Harry Houdini Stacy Edwards as Bess Houdini Paul Sorvino as Blackburn Rhea Perlman...
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    Guest 2021 Deck the Hallmark Guest Drama Queens Co-Host 2022 Dark Sanctum Performer- Bess Houdini 2023 Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Performer- Elizabeth...
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    Pieces Shirley "Betty" 1972 The Getaway Fran Clinton 1976 The Great Houdini Bess Houdini 1978 A Different Approach Cameo Short film 1979 ...And Your Name...
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  • EFX (show) (category Cultural depictions of Harry Houdini)
    led by Bess Houdini in which she asks to speak to the spirit of her dead husband, the famous illusionist Harry Houdini. The EFX Master, as Houdini, appears...
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    World War II (lying in a Commonwealth war grave) Bess Houdini (1876–1943), wife of magician Harry Houdini Peter Hujar (1934–1987), photographer and artist...
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    for the biographical feature Houdini (1953)–the couple's first film together–with the two appearing as Harry and Bess Houdini, respectively. The couple also...
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    Siegfried & Roy cited him as an inspiration, and Bess Houdini said that he was second only to Harry Houdini in "play(ing) the part of a magician." He was...
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    Anthony Mann Confidentially Connie Connie Bedloe Edward Buzzell Houdini Bess Houdini George Marshall Walking My Baby Back Home Chris Hall Lloyd Bacon...
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  • She also starred opposite Johnathon Schaech in the 1998 television movie Houdini. As lead actress, she starred in Four Dogs Playing Poker and Mexico City...
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  • the single was another track from The Dreaming, "Houdini". This song is about the story of Bess Houdini and her attempts to communicate with her deceased...
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    M. Parent Assembly Number One), Bess Houdini's stage outfit and a large selection of smaller pieces such as Houdini's personal magic and escape props...
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  • Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, better known as Bess Houdini (1876–1943), stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini Rayner This page lists people with the surname...
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    residence of Snoopy's brother Spike. Bess Houdini, wife and stage assistant of famed escape artist Harry Houdini, died in Needles in 1943. Yara tav, leader...
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  • Arbre and Mr Everett. In 1919 Kellar gave his "Psycho" to Houdini. When Houdini died, Bess Houdini passed the Psycho to Joseph Dunninger who then passed it...
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    performed with Houdini at Coney Island as "The Brothers Houdini". While he and Harry were there, Harry met and married Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Rahner. Will...
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    attendance. On Halloween 1936, in what would become a media sensation, Bess Houdini held her tenth and final séance to contact her dead husband on the hotel's...
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  • Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967) January 22 – Bess Houdini, wife, stage partner of Harry Houdini (d. 1943) January 23 – Otto Diels, German chemist...
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  • Minky Woodcock (category Cultural depictions of Harry Houdini)
    into Harry Houdini's wife Bess in a speakeasy. After learning Minky is a detective and fearing a spiritualist threat to her husband's life, Bess hires Minky...
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