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He made front page headlines again and again, as well as selling out his shows. That way the photographers could just pop out of a window to shoot him. When he would enter a new town, he’d hang from buildings that housed major newspapers. And, to Houdini, the legend was just as important as the magic. There is a reason Houdini’s diaries are full of newspaper clippings. His costumes, visuals, theatrics of his show, his ability to create suspense.

In 1953 there was a popular but fictionalized movie "Houdini" (with Tony Curtis as Houdini) its ending is that Houdini accidentally drowns trying to escape from a escape proof water trap.In an age when public relations was difficult (no radio, internet or television), Houdini built buzz one town at a time.

Some speculate that it was caused by a ruptured appendix from that incident. Houdini's official cause of death was peritonitis (inflammation in the abdomen). Houdini became sick afterwards, but continued to perform. Two weeks before his death, a college student approached Houdini and asked him if he could withstand a punch in the stomach, a challenge which Houdini often took, and the former punched him several times. Houdini died in Detroit, Michigan, on October 31, 1926. He made the first successful airplane flight in Australia, on 18 March 1910, in Victoria.

Houdini also appeared in several early movies and made many early airplane flights. Mr Beck was impressed with Houdini's handcuff stunts and within a year Houdini was famous. In 1899 his acts got better when he met his manager Martin Beck. At first he did not have much success in his career.

He was born in Budapest to Jewish parents and was named Ehrich Weiss, but changed his name to Harry Houdini when he became a professional magician. He also investigated fake spiritualists and was a skeptic. Harry Houdini (MaOctober 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist.