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
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Dorothy Dietrich sawing celebrity comedian Robert Klein in half on TV
Bess Houdini
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Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini.
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…Exploring the Unknown. The seances at the Houdini Museum in Scranton are often attended by the Houdini family, who are the closest living relatives of Bess Houdini, making this the closest event connected back to the original seances that Bess Houdini held. Dietrich also crusades against those who falsely claim…
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