Tony Curtis, the legendary actor who entertaed and awed The Defiant On, Houdi and, y, the cross-drsg edy romp Some Like It Hot, died at the age of 85 om rdiac arrt at his home near Las Vegas. Born Bernard Schwartz to Hungarian Jewish immigrants New York Cy, Curtis knew that his only ticket to fame and fortune me om his face, a palette of lite bety and handsome fightg World War II, Curtis moved back to New York, enrolled actg class and adopted a new name -- Anthony Curtis, which he ed for small parts films such as Francis and Wchter '73, which also starred another b actor who would bee famo, Rock Hudson. Curtis wouldn't officially shorten his stage name until 1950, when he appeared the Wtern Stage wasn't until 1951, wh the release of The Prce Who Was a Thief and his marriage to another risg star, Ja Leigh, that Curtis' star tly began to she, and peaked 1958, when Curtis and Sidney Poier starred as nvicts chaed together The Defiant On, a movie that garnered Curtis an Osr nomatn. Curtis' reer ntued to soar, brgg the public such hs as Spartac, The Great Race and Sex and The Sgle Girl. The most memorable for gay viewers, however, may have been Curtis' turn as a a mician on the n, and a drs, for Some Like It Hot. As the New York Tim not, Curtis' bety helped lend self to an "ambiguy."
Contents:
HOMOPHOBIA HOLLYWOOD: WHY GAY MOVIE STARS STILL N'T E OUT OF THE CLOSET
Our celebratn of post-war gay, bisexual, and straight movie stars wearg next to nothg at all. * was actor tony curtis gay *
He loved his “brothers and sisters” who were gay, but he jt wasn’t one of them. This was not admted 1957, and no one n blame a mercial movie of that era for lackg the urage or even the self-awarens that would have been so direct about a stctive homosexual relatnship.
I don’t thk anyone uld ntemplate a remake of the film today whout seeg that there has to be a gay relatnship between lumnist and prs agent, a reliance that exclus the rt of life.
Bgrafía Tony Curtis cluyendo fotos fancia/leg y grabacn la primera vez en la tv + históri etnia y hechos sobre ser gay/hetero. * was actor tony curtis gay *
I am nfint that director Mackendrick and wrer Ots were not homosexual, though I’m ls sure that they didn’t unrstand the possibily of that relatnship and see an unrground life the stg. It was the late 1940s, as he thought of a show bs reer, that he started workg hard on his looks and his body, and when he felt people the neighborhood were thkg he might be gay.
In those late 1940s—and still today—there is a wispread feelg that a lot of people show bs are gay. That notn exists above and beyond the fact that there are more homosexuals show bs than most other profsns. Curtis grew up the movie bs wh a rps of very good-lookg guys, many of whom were clients of the agent Henry Willson, who cultivated gay actors who did not e out of the closet on screen—one of them was Rock Hudson, a ntemporary of Curtis’s at Universal.
Not that matters now, but I don’t believe Tony Curtis was gay, ever.