The Autobiography by Tony Curtis copyright 1993 - this hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition. There is no other writing nor torn or missing pages -- dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear .........(see photos) .... Excellent addition to your Collection
Signed on 3rd page "11 23 93 Sandy a pleasure Tony Curtis".
Tony Curtis is famous for his roles in films such as "Sweet Smell
of Success", "Some Like It Hot" and "The Boston Strangler". He is also
renown for saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe was "like kissing Hitler".
In this autobiography, the reader can follow his fortunes from life in a
New York street gang in the 1930s to the bath scene with Olivier in
"Spartacus", from marriage to Janet Leigh, to his descent into alcohol
and cocaine addiction in the 1970s. It contains many previously
unpublished film stills, production shots and personal snaps
Self-serving and related in the argot of a former street kid, this
story traces the metamorphosis of Bernie Schwartz, battler against
anti-Semitic gangs, into Tony Curtis, screen personality. Leaving his
Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood in 1949 at the age of 23, he
arrived in Hollywood with a contract that ultimately led to stardom.
Writing with Paris ( Louise Brooks ), the actor dwells equally on his
talents and supposedly irresistible appeal to women. To support the
latter contention, Curtis lists his many lovers and four wives: first
Janet Leigh, mother of two; the second and third wives, who bore two
more offspring each; and his recent bride, a young law-school graduate.
If Curtis's vanity didn't interfere, one could more readily sympathize
with the man as a survivor of a mean childhood and the drug addiction
from which he is recovering. Unfortunately, he blames most of his
troubles on others, beginning with his parents. Such attacks and small
thanks to benefactors ill become the hero of The Defiant Ones ,
Spartacus , Some Like it Hot and other films
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