Happy Birthday to the King of Cards

In honor of Houdini’s Birthday, thought I would light some candles and share a beautiful photo of Houdini doing a card manipulation late in his career, courtesy of the McCord Museum.

Houdini would feature card flourishes in his 3 Shows In 1.

While I wish we could say this photo is from the Princess Theatre, Montreal October 1926, it appears to be a non-cropped still from a movie short Houdini made earlier (1925/26). See below for comparison.

For more info on the Card Flourishes movie, please see the following post:

In the future, I plan to share some new info on a couple more 1926 photos

2 thoughts on “Happy Birthday to the King of Cards

  1. Wouldn’t a pic of him at the Princess be amazing? But, yeah, that’s from the short. Still a great find as we see the full stage/set here.

    Happy birthday Harry!

  2. Great stuff Joe! I’m eager to read the new info on the 1926 photos. Harry did the card flourishes and manipulations pretty much from the start. Beck told him to drop the magic but the cards never completely left.

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