The six-decade-long career of American actor Tony Curtis, whose real name was Bernard Schwartz, peaked in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was born on June 3, 1925. Tony Curtis was conceived near the corner of Fifth Avenue Hospital and East 105th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The first child of Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz was Tony Curtis.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curtis joined the US Navy. He made the decision to join the Pacific submarine force after being inspired by Tyrone Power and Cary Grant’s performances in Crash Dive and Destination Tokyo (1943). From the commencement of the Second World War to its finish, Curtis served as a submarine tender on the USS Proteus.
More than 100 films, spanning many different genres, featured Tony Curtis. Curtis watched a lot of television in his senior year. Curtis, who was 23 at the time, moved to Hollywood. Curtis writes in his memoirs about his fortuitous encounter with Jack Warner on a journey to California and his brief encounter with Marilyn Monroe before any of them became well-known.
Due to the countless fan letters Curtis was getting, Universal gave him the lead role in The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), a swashbuckler starring Piper Laurie and set in the Middle East. At the box office, it was a success, and Curtis became well-known.
Tony Curtis’s Net Worth At Death
At the time of Tony Curtis’s passing, he had a net worth of $60 million.
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