We remember the classic movies of Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, who passed away yesterday at the age of 85.
We’re sad to report the passing of cinema legend Tony Curtis, who died yesterday aged 85.
The star of such classics as Some Like It Hot, in which he starred alongside Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and Stanley Kubrick’s period epic, Spartacus, Curtis appeared in more than a hundred movies since his debut in 1949’s Criss Cross.
Curtis won a much-deserved Oscar for his role in 1958’s The Defiant Ones, which also starred Sidney Poitier, and made memorable small screen appearances in series such as The Persuaders, and provided the voice of his near-namesake Stony Curtis in The Flintstones.
It’s for his comedy turn in Some Like It Hot that he’ll probably be most fondly remembered, however, and his performance as one of two hapless musicians who decide to disguise themselves as women to avoid the attention of Chicago gangsters is a brilliant one.
It’s fitting, then, that when Curtis was asked, back in 2008, what he’d like to have carved on his gravestone, he jokingly replied, “Nobody’s perfect,” the last line of Some Like It Hot.