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
Theodore Hardeen
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Ferenc Dezső Weisz, known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brot
Bess Houdini
…was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a. Theodore Hardeen). However, after Theo introduced them one evening, it was the older Houdini brother, Harry, that she fell in love with and married on June 22, 1894…
Hardeen in 1905
Hardeen with his brother, Houdini (seated left) c. 1901
Hardeen's tombstone at the Houdini gravesite at Machpelah Cemetery in Queens. The inscription reads: "He went about doing good. We miss you, dear."