This was a weird one … I like the little bolero and the color combo is definitely Bess’ character color palette, but looking closely at the dress itself, I’m pretty sure it’s a basic calico “prairie” dress. Harry actually asks her why she has to wear such heavy makeup during their wedding night scene, and she brushes it off and keeps piling on the black eyeshadow. I’m only speculating, but her really dark makeup throughout the show might be some kind of visual cue that she’s different. I’m really only including it because this establishes that Bess was a vaudeville performer when she and Harry met. The first scene we see Bess in, she’s dancing, so it’s hard to get a good pic of her outfit. Shall we debate the merits of the notch lapel versus the peak lapel? Considering the series was produced by the same channel that brings us Ancient Aliens, I wonder why they shied away from including that disclaimer on the standard release version? I don’t think it would have ruined the magic … er … illusion. Which probably would have made a lot of the historical weirdness in this film make more sense when put into context. After all, as one of the characters says in the show, “Magicians are liars, and the best liars are magicians.” So, maybe that’s all part of the grand plan for this show? Apparently, the DVD special edition contains this disclaimer at the start of the film: Or maybe just treat yourself a nice Patron margarita with a rock salt rim and sit back and enjoy Adrien Brody all chained up and half naked. As always, I have to urge everyone reading this to take a REALLY LARGE PILE OF SALT with this biopic because it more or less tosses history out the window and inserts a whole lot of wildly inaccurate and highly speculative occurrences in the name of jazzing things up a bit. Well, I finally got around to watching Houdini (2014), the History Channel’s 4-hour miniseries on Harry Houdini’s life, starring Adrien Brody as the greatest magician in the world.
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