Some of the more unusual people included in the museum are Lina Medina (a Peruvian girl who gave birth at age 5), Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray (the "Double Indemnity" murderers), James Roach ("the Rape Killer"), a two-headed baby, and Richard Speck (killer of eight student nurses in 1966). Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, General Douglas MacArthur with Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Governor Thomas Dewey, Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Nat King Cole, and Elvis Presley. The wax figures featured in the film include baseball player Roberto Clemente, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Her employees then help her to pack up the wax figures into boxes Lillie tells them the proper way to disassemble the figures without breaking them. Group tour rates are available for 10 or more people. With the help of filmmaker Ellen Fisher, Lillie walks on the beach and wades into the shallows of the ocean, recalling fond memories.Īt the end of the film, the museum's employees toast to Lillie with a drink, and Lillie begins to tear up as she tells them she loves them all. Potters Wax Museum is located at 31 Orange Street, inside the Old Drugstore in the historic downtown area of St. A man who says Lillie gave him his first job at Coney Island introduces her to the crowd and she addresses them with a microphone. Scenes of Lillie introducing her wax figures are intercut with shots of Lillie at Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade. These collectible souvenirs were made right before your eyes to the amazement of. Lillie discusses morbid scenes with a comically deadpan delivery, describing wax recreations of murder as "another beautiful setting," and repeating wisely "crime does not pay." Lillie's memory has grown foggy (she mistakenly describes Einstein as "Father of the Atomic Bomb" and forgets what John Lennon is famous for), and the museum's custodian repeatedly steps in to fill in details of the exhibits. A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution. Vintage Chicago Field Museum Mold-A-Rama Apatosaurus wax dinosaur souvenir. Located in the Henderson Building on Stillwell Avenue and the Bowery, Santangelo opened the World in Wax Musée in 1926, filling it with wax replicas of both famous individuals and gruesome events. Find 14 listings related to National Wax Museum in Chicago on YP.com. Harriet Sanger Pullman, left, was a socialite who supported. Description Surrounded by her loyal employees, Lillie Beatrice Santangelo leads the filmmakers on a tour of her long-established wax museum in Coney Island, which she had run for over 54 years. They were created by Minna Schmidt and donated to the Illinois State Historical Library in 1929.
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