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Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the son of Jewish Hungarian (from the city of Mátészalka, Szatmár) immigrants Emanuel and Helen Schwartz, in the Bronx, New York. 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 tailor's shop, parents in one corner and Tony and his brothers Julius and Robert in another. Curtis has said of his mother in interview ' When I was a child she beat me up and was very aggressive, antagonistic.' His mother was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness which ... affected his brother Robert and led to his institutionalization. When Curtis was 8, he and his younger brother Julius were placed in an orphanage for one month because their parents could not afford to feed them. There were more hard times to come.
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Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, NY. Tony's parents were Hungarian immigrants. After he completed high school, Curtis enlisted in the US Navy in 1943 (during World War II). He received the Purple Heart after being wounded in action during the invasion of Guam in 1944. Curtis received an honorable discharge in 1945 and then got into acting. His debut film was City Across the River (1949).
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Extraordinarily successful exhibitions all over North America, Europe, and Asia, of Tony Curtis' paintings, assemblages, collages, and boxes have earned him tremendous acclaim as a highly sought after artist and a prominent place in many world famous public and private collections. One of Mr. Curtis’s paintings has just been accepted into the permanent collection of the new film and media wing of the Museum of modern Art in New York, scheduled to open at the end of this year, and Mr. Curtis is currently working on a proposed exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum.
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Two women have been arrested for stealing Hollywood veteran Tony Curtis' wallet, after using his money and bank cards to make a series of purchases in California. An assistant of the 78-year-old Some Like It Hot star first reported the wallet missing in August last year, one month after he passed through the small town of Barstow, about 115 miles northeast of Los Angeles. A spokesman for Barstow Police Department has confirmed two women have been arrested on charges of forgery and unauthorized possession of account numbers after detectives found they had made transactions using Curtis' cards. They were ... arrested for possession of methamphetamines, as were several others who were in their homes at the time of the arrests.
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Synopsis: This romantic and sometimes ribald historical farce finds nobleman Guerrando (Tony Curtis) knighted in the days before the Crusades. He inherits a castle, tax-collecting rights, first choice of all the fair young maidens of the region, and a draft notice from the King. Boccadoro (Monica Vitti) isRead More
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Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), the eldest of three sons of a Manuel and Helen Schwartz, was born on June 3, 1925, in New York City. Curtis grew up in an impoverished section of the Bronx, and had joined a street gang by the age of eleven. He joined the Navy in 1943, and upon his release from active duty, he returned to New York where he used the GI Bill to war, attend the City College of New York. He took acting lessons at the Dramatic Workshop and first gained attention in a Greenwich Village stage production of "Golden Boy". He was quickly offered a seven year contract by Universal Pictures. In 1948 he headed for California where his screen debut had him dancing with Yvonne de Carlo in Criss Cross (1948). His few seconds on screen were enough to generate tens of thousands of fan letters a week asking for a lock of his hair.
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