Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Harry Houdini finds an ally in his fight against spiritualism, a brilliant detective called Rose Mackenberg, who’ll do whatever it takes to expose a fake. Together, the two head to ...

Harry Houdini remains an endlessly fascinating figure ... As for where Houdini and his wife actually lived, well, that's the ...

To his audiences, Harry Houdini’s skills seemed almost supernatural. But to Houdini himself, an immigrant who embraced showmanship to escape grinding poverty, his abilities were built entirely ...

Houdini’s wife, Bess, fitted her for a silk stage costume. In the show the two women performed a stately minuet before the great man made his entrance and introduced the “Radio Girl”.

Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable Americans of the early twentieth century. That they quickly became friends when they met just before Thanksgiving ...

Harry Houdini around 1907 (credit ... Anael Zateikin plays Houdini’s wife. I have another personality, Houdini’s friend Dmitry Shem Tov – they were together in his exploits.