This entry was posted in Houdini (1953), Tony Curtis by hhce. The music of the Dime Museum comes softly over the poster of Houdini at the age of twenty, wearing his ill-fitting dress suit and pulling a rabbit out of a silk hat, the age old symbol of the magician. Tony Curtis portrays magician Harry Houdini in the 1953 Hollywood movie Houdini Picture: AP From the movie Some Like It Hot shows US actors Jack Lemmon. As she brushes the curtain aside from her eyes to read the note:Īs tears well in her eyes she glances up from the red rose to a faded yellow poster on the wall. The wind whips the lace curtain across her face, shrouding it like a mourning veil. She lays the roses on the table and curiously unwinds the note from the one red rose. She crosses the broken vase, gathers up the red roses, and sees a small note twined around the stem of one of the roses. We then see Bess dressed for traveling, packing a wardrobe trunk. The vase topples to the floor and crashes. A gust of wind whips the curtains back against the vase. The second draft screenplay (Yellow) dated Augends as follows:Īfter Otto smashes the glass front of the cell with his axe, there is a close shot of a crystal vase of red roses on a table before a half-opened window. I think she was doing something with a flower setting.Īs promised, I said that I would do a blog about the third ending that Kevin mentioned. As I try to remember it, I think it was just Bess (Janet Leigh) at the end by herself and Houdini has been dead for a while. I haven’t read the script in a very, very long time, but I seem to remember that there was a third ending. Kevin Connolly over at Houdini Himself replied to my post that described two different endings with the following comment:
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