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Look for the " Did You Know?" keys throughout the exhibition.they offer fascinating little known factoids! Harry Houdini performs "Water Torture Cell" | Photo courtesy of the Breman Museum The path to becoming the world's greatest escape artist included time performing in vaudeville shows, which also helped launch the careers of other greats such as George Burns, the Three Stooges, and Milton Berle!

he became one of, if not the, most famous performers in Russia!Įscape Artist Harry Houdini | Photo: Travis Swann Taylor.

he was proud to be such an accomplished athlete and,.

he left home (leaving a note for this mother) at 12 years old.

In this exhibition, you'll learn fascinating facts about Houdini that you might not learn otherwise, including: Houdini in the News | Photo courtesy of the Breman Musuem Otherwise we might not have known that they graced our stages, ate in our restaurants, stayed in our hotels, and met our citizens! Houdini visited Atlanta on more than one occasion. I love exhibitions that tell us of grand celebrities who visited Atlanta. Houdini in Atlanta | Photo courtesy of the Breman Museum

None of us would know Hollywood-or the Georgia film industry-were it not for our Jewish friends! I find it interesting and grandly satisfying that-although not Jewish myself-an industry once trivialized as a fad and not a smart career move, left jobs relegated to those deemed lesser has now become one of the most coveted, most successful of all career paths across the entire globe. He worked on other films and even owned his own movie studio, bearing his name, for a while. Harry Houdini was also a film star! Using his mastery of escape, he starred in The Master Mystery, also called " The Houdini Serial ", a 15-episode murder mystery serial in 1918. Harry Houdini in "The Master Mystery" | Photo courtesy of the Breman Museum This exhibition will disappear after Sunday, August 11, so do not delay! If you make it in time, you'll get to see some of the actual handcuffs Houdini used in his performances! There are a limited number of actual artifacts from his life, understandably, but I think you'll love the ones that you get to see! Houdini in Handcuffs, 1899 | Photo courtesy of the Breman Museum Read to the end for some fantastic programming associated with this exhibition!

He was veiled, yet transparent.to say that Harry Houdini was complicated would be an understatement! He was curious, incredibly intelligent, a proud athlete, a television and cinema actor, as well as a purist, a philanthropist, and a debunker. Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz on Tuesday, March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary, to parents Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz and Cecelia Steiner, was unequivocally more than the world's greatest and most famous escape artist.