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Harry Houdini: Legacy
Houdini left a final sting for his spiritualist opponents: shortly before his death, he had made a pact with his wife, Bess Houdini, to contact her from the other side if possible and deliver a pre-arranged coded message. Every Halloween for the next 10 years, Bess held a séance to test the pact. In 1936, after a last unsuccessful seance on the roof of the Knickerbokker hotel, she put out the candle that she had kept burning beside a photograph of Houdini since his death.
The United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp with a replica of Houdini's favorite publicity poster on July 3, 2002.
Harry Houdini has a
motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7001 Hollywood Blvd. He starred in 5 silent films and wrote some of them.
A mostly fictionalized version of Houdini's life was made in a film in 1953 starring
Tony Curtis. Most of the misconceptions about Houdini's life are due in part to this film. For example, it portrayed him dying from the Chinese Water Torture Cell, instead of the less spectacular peritonitis.
Experiment 604 in ' was named Houdini, in his honour.
Controversy surrounds the decision by the
Outagamie Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin to reveal the details of how Houdini performed his Metamorphosis trick.On November 2nd, 2004, Houdini's only niece (Marie H. Blood) passed away.
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