![]() To help celebrate this season's opening, award winning magician Jeff Grow will be at the Museum on Thursday, April 7th, from 11 a.m. In addition, visitors from within the state will be especially interested in the story of Houdini’s final days, which, of course, have a Michigan connection. Because several of their best known Houdini artifacts (like The Milk Can) are traveling this year as part of Houdini Art and Magic, AMM will be showcasing Houdini items that the public rarely sees. This replaces last season's highly successful Penn & Teller: Bad Boys of Magic.Īmerican Idol: Becoming Harry Houdini uses artifacts and photographs from the Museum's extensive collection. The American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan will open its 33rd season this Friday, April 1, with a new featured exhibit, American Idol: Becoming Harry Houdini. Houdini parted his hair and all the young magicians copied him.” And I said, “Why is that?” He said, “Houdini. (Laughs) And I said to another magician, who I met later, I said, I told him that story I said, and he had his hair parted in the middle, and he said a lot of magicians have their hair parted in the middle. And then I had to meet the real magician to learn the tricks, the technical advisor, and he came in, and his hair was parted in the middle and I thought I haven’t even started the movie and I’ve got something right. No, but in this, the first thing I saw that I’d got right, was before we ever started shooting the movie, I decided to part my hair in the middle. It was Hugh and Christian who were the magicians. Q: Did you learn any magic tricks while doing The Prestige?ĬAINE: No, I didn’t play a magician in The Prestige, you see, I played the guy who made the tricks. ![]() In this 2009 interview about his film, Is Anybody There? (which recently made a list of Top 5 Magician Movies), actor Michael Caine had this interesting nugget of information about Houdini’s influence on other magicians.hair. The episode featured a magician (Nick Lewin) seeking the assistance of Houdini's spirit to unmask his murderous wife. The Hitchcock and Houdini names did finally come together in 1988 with an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called, Houdini on Channel 4. ![]() Just another tantalizing what could have been. Instead, Hitchcock and Selznick would settle on doing Spellbound with Bergman and Gregory Peck as their next film. Unfortunately, Hitchcock turned down Houdini as well as Selznick's second suggestion, a Technicolor version of SHE with Ingrid Bergman. "Houdini" with either Cary Grant or Joe Cotton can, I think, be an outstanding and enormously popular picture with very great opportunity for treatment by you. Selznick ( Gone With The Wind ) sent Hitchcock a memo in which he pitched two projects for the director's consideration. A Houdini biopic directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant? It could have happened.
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