Tonight is my big Houdini in Hollywood event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. To mark the occasion, our good friend John C. Hinson, the great nephew of Harry and Bess Houdini, has sent over this fantastic image of silent screen superstar Gloria Swanson who has playfully inscribed this photo to Houdini himself.
I hope to see some of you at tonight's event. For those who can't make it, I will do my best to get pics up within the next few days.
The Hollywood Heritage Museum is located at 2100 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90068, directly across from the Hollywood Bowl (enter on Odin St.). Parking is plentiful and free. Phone is (323) 874-2276. For more visit hollywoodheritage.org.
UPDATE: When Houdini returned to Hollywood.
- Home
- Life
- Escapes
- Magic
- Movies
- Houdini's Movies
- Les merveilleux exploits de Houdini à Paris (1909)
- The Master Mystery (1918)
- The Grim Game (1919)
- Terror Island (1920)
- The Man From Beyond (1922)
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)
- Velvet Fingers (1925-26)
- Medium Well Done (1937)
- Religious Racketeers (1938)
- Houdini Picture Corp.
- Film Developing Corp.
- Filming locations
- Unmade Movies
- Deconstructing Houdini '53
- Spiritualism
- People
- Beatrice Houdini
- Theo Hardeen
- Cecelia Weiss
- Mayer Samuel Weiss
- Jim Collins
- Franz Kukol
- Martin Beck
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Margery
- J. Gordon Whitehead
- Edward Saint
- Jacob Hyman
- Leopold Weiss
- Carrie Gladys Weiss
- Bernard M.L. Ernst
- Charmian London
- Jess Willard
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Sherlock Holmes
- Assistants
- Imitators
- Other magicians
- Media
- Full Bibliography
- By Houdini
- Biography
- Fiction
- Foreign
- For Kids
- Methods
- Wild About Harry Bookshelf
- Houdini His Life Story (1928)
- Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959)
- Houdini The Untold Story (1969)
- The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (1993)
- Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1996)
- The Secret Life of Houdini (2006)
- The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini (2012)
- The Witch of Lime Street (2015)
- The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (2019)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
It was a memorable evening in Hollywood! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication!
ReplyDeleteSwanson wrote "Try and find it" on her photo. I wonder what she meant. It looks like she's hiding something in her left hand.
ReplyDeleteSwanson would soon run into financial trouble and enlisted Joseph Kennedy to help get her financial house in order. Kennedy lavished her with dinners and gifts that...came from her own bank account. Eventually Swanson caught wind of that and was understandably livid.