One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 6, 1874, the legendary illusionist Harry Houdini was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. Or so he claimed. The man we call Houdini was actually born Erich ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- For all of his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: the unparalleled performer, age 52, expired on Halloween 1926. Many of his trade secrets went with ...

FARGO - Thad Ellsworth caught the magic "bug" in 1983, when his third-grade teacher gave the class a reading assignment on Harry Houdini. The Bismarck native asked his mom for a magic set that ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jeff Nathanson has signed to write and direct the adaptation of William Kalush and Larry Sloman's Harry Houdini biography "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of ...