Bess Houdini
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Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini.
Houdini in the early 1900s
1895 poster for The Houdinis
Houdini with his mother and Bess (1907)
The Houdinis' grave marker at Machpelah Cemetery, Queens
Dorothy Dietrich
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Dorothy Dietrich is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds o
Bess Houdini
…New York's Magic Towne House with such magical notables as Houdini biographer Milbourne Christopher. Before he died, Gibson passed on the tradition to Dorothy Dietrich. Bess Houdini died from a heart attack on February 11, 1943, while in Needles, California, aboard an eastbound train traveling from Los Angeles to New…
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Dorothy Dietrich sawing celebrity comedian Robert Klein in half on TV