Hollywood Remembers Tony Curtis
Bernard Schwartz studied toured with a company on the Catskill Mountain "Borscht Circuit", before winning a role on Broadway and moving to Hollywood where he signed with Universal studios in 1949. Universal changed his name first to James Curtis, then Tony Curtis.
A Hollywood heartthrob, Curtis played a variety of roles, from delinquent to epic hero. He won critical success as an amoral press agent with The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and won an Oscar nomination for best actor in The Defiant Ones (1958). The following year he co-starred with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot.
