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Persuaders!, The (1971)Danny Wilde anecdotage.com TC http://www.anecdotage.com/browse.php?category=people&who =Curtis Tony Curtis and I are sitting across from each other in his airy living room overlooking Las Vegas, nose to nose, our faces a foot apart. He's regaling me with one of his golden oldies, a story I heard him tell once before, years ago on David Letterman's show, but I'm not planning to stop him in full flow.I'll set it up for you. It's 1948 or 1949, Tony's just made his first movie and is back in New York - where people still think of him as little Bernie Schwartz, the no-talent pretty kid - to film a few on-location pickup shots. After work one day, his mind drifts back to the only acting school he attended, where the "pretty kid" issue was a bone of contention with his more studious, less beautiful fellow actors, among them people like Jack Klugman and Walter Matthau.
"I was in my early movie days, and they flew me back to New York from being in this one movie, tiny part. And I got in the limousine to go back to the hotel. And I told them to drive by the old theatre where the acting school was - the President Theater - and Walter was standing under the awning, looking just miserable, a terrible rainy day. And I told the driver, 'See that guy standing over there, pull over so I can talk to him.' And here's Walter, still at the acting school, hasn't worked as an actor properly yet, and he was so dishevelled and sad and wet, and I'll never forget the look on his face, like, 'Who the fuck is comin' to the school in a car like that?'"And before he could get a word out, I rolled down the window, stuck my head out and said very loud: 'I fucked Yvonne De Carlo!' And then I told the driver, 'Get outta here!' I left poor old Walter standing there holding his newspaper over his head in the rain. That was my way of telling him and everyone else in that acting school that I was the one in the movies now!"De Carlo is dead. Matthau is dead, as are Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, Laurence Olivier, Henry Fonda and all the other legends he ever worked with (one cannot count them all), but Tony Curtis - the man who lent Elvis Presley his duck's-ass hairdo, who appears on the Sgt Pepper album cover, and managed to make a few classic movies in his spare time - he still walks among us, for better or worse, eternally the pretty kid he was in his halcyon Hollywood youth. Except he ain't, well, quite so pretty these days.http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,22742 58,00.html

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Tony Curtis (b. Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925), is an American film actor. He is best known for light comic roles, especially his musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (1959) with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Over the years he has also assayed more serious dramatic roles, such as his escaped convict in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Since 1949 he has appeared in more than 100 films and has also made frequent television appearances. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, in the Bronx, New York, in 1925, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrant parents (from Mátészalka, Szatmár, Hungary) Emanuel and Helen Schwartz. His father was a tailor who had left his home country to find a new life in the United States. In the early days the family lived in the back of his father's shop, parents in one corner and Curtis and his brothers Julius and Robert in another. Curtis has said of his mother, "When I was a child Mom beat me up and was very aggressive and antagonistic." Mrs. Schwartz was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness which also affected his brother Robert and led to his institutionalization. When Curtis was eight, he and his younger brother Julius were placed in an orphanage for a month because their parents could not afford to feed them. When Curtis was 13, his brother Julius was hit by a truck and died. It fell to Tony to identify the body. Curtis retains his brother's cap and school books because, he says, "That's all that's left of him."Between 1942 and 1945 Curtis served in the United States Navy aboard the submarine tender, the USS Proteus. He witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay September 14, 1945, from 300 yards (274.32 m) away.[1] After his military service, the young Curtis studied acting in New York alongside Elaine Stritch, Walter Matthau and Rod Steiger. He was "discovered" by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick because, as he says, "I was the handsomest of the boys." Arriving in Hollywood in 1948 at 23, he was placed under contract at Universal Pictures and changed his name to Tony Curtis. Although the studio taught him fencing and riding, Curtis admits he was only interested in girls and money.