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Actor
Best Movie:
Some Like It Hot (1959)

Birth name:
Bernard Schwartz

Birthplace:
The Bronx

Date of Birth:
June 3, 1925

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Tony Curtis (1925-2010)

Tony Curtis biography / bio:

Bernard grows up poor and has little formal education, but learns from the school of hard knocks. Bernard joins the Navy hoping to be on a submarine and ended up aboard a tender in the Pacific. Bernard uses the GI Bill to get into the Dramatic Workshop. In 1948 Tony Curtis arrives in Hollywood as a 75 dollar a week studio contract player. Tony Curtis is his Hollywood name, taken from the novel Anthony Adverse and Kurtz, a family name.
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Marriages(6) most famous: Janet Leigh (1951-62 daughters: Kelly and Jamie Lee).

Tony Curtis movies / films / early movies:

Movies: Criss Cross (1949); City Across the River (1949); The Lady Gambles (1949); Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949); Francis (1949); Sierra (1950); Kansas Raiders (1950); Winchester '73 (1950); The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951); Flesh and Fury (1952); No Room for the Groom (1952); Son of Ali Baba (1952); Houdini (1953); The All American (1953); Forbidden (1953); Beachhead (1954); The Black Shield of Falworth (1954); Johnny Dark (1954); So This Is Paris (1954); The Purple Mask (1955); Six Bridges to Cross (1955); The Square Jungle (1955); The Rawhide Years(1956); Trapeze(1956); Mister Cory (1957); The Midnight Story (1957); Sweet Smell of Success (1957); The Vikings (1958); Kings Go Forth (1958); The Defiant Ones (1958); The Perfect Furlough (1958); Some Like It Hot (1959); Operation Petticoat (1959); Pepe (1960); Who Was That Lady? (1960); The Rat Race (1960); Spartacus (1960); The Great Impostor (1960); The Outsider (1961); Forty Pounds of Trouble (1962); Taras Bulba (1962); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963); Captain Newman, M.D. (1963); Wild and wonderful (1964) Goodbye Charlie (1964); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited, 1964); The Great Race (1965).
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Note:   Spartacus and The Great Race are other best Tony Curtis movies.