Harry Houdini’s Increasingly Failed Movie Career

Support our efforts to make videos about what we want: https://ift.tt/2MDSQiC Is there another magician of such renown that he has entire television shows devoted to him near 90 years after his death? Born in Hungary as Eric Weisz in 1874 (his famous stage name was a slight tweaking of the name Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, possibly the most famous magician of the 19th century and the person who codified the familiar stage magician costume still used today), by 1899 Houdini had emigrated to the United States of America and began the career that would make him the most famous stunt magician in the world. For various reasons, though, Houdini himself did not consider that enough. By 1918, he announced he would be abandoning the stage work that had served him so well for decades and start devoting himself to becoming a star of the silver screen. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Celebrities With Anxiety Disorders https://youtu.be/LbE1hfkeJE0?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKUFXyekxgY1xuFObYL-Icg Top 10 Celebrities You Didn’t Realize Were In Star Trek https://youtu.be/0TjgZbVdOLA?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKWRKvvUpaqLs1nWSgNpms5 Text version: https://ift.tt/2NXuOPB Source/Further reading: https://youtu.be/zipdW_YOM3g https://youtu.be/s7sXLOEaxSA https://ift.tt/2E7sGEL https://youtu.be/WYnbe_2IZ8Q https://youtu.be/SgytY83LDG0 https://ift.tt/2RwFh6S https://ift.tt/2E7TeFQ