In 1936, Beatrice Houdini and her manager Edward Saint sold film rights to the book Houdini His Life Story by Harold Kellock to Paramount. RKO developed, but never produced, a movie that would be a thinly veiled fictional biopic called Now You See It. Since the 1930s, Hollywood had worked to tell the life of the great magician. While HOUDINI is almost entirely a work of fiction, it does capture the glamor, drama, and danger of Harry Houdini in a way that I think would have made the Master Mystifier proud. It's amazing just how many magic and Houdini buffs, including myself, cite this one film as the reason they became interested in the subject. Unquestionably the most famous Houdini biopic is Paramount's 1953 HOUDINI starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
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