One hundred years old would be the Hollywood acting legend Tony Curtis
Hollywood legend Tony Curtis was born a hundred years ago. The star of Hungarian origin, who died in 2010, entered the story of the cinema. He had a very adventurous life that deserves even a movie: on the anniversary, we collected interesting things and secrets that few people know.
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Its original name was Bernard Schwartz, and in honor of Mihály Kertész in honor of the artist name Tony Curtis.
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During his film career, he has been in works such as « Van who loves it hot » and « trapezoid ».
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He had six wives who had six children, including Jamie Lee Curtis, also famous.
His parents migrated to America
His father, Manó Schwartz and his mother, Ilona Klein, married in Budapest, but after World War I was emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. He was born in New York under the name Bernard, but his parents only spoke Hungarian.
Born in New York under the name Bernard Schwartz, but her mother, Ilona, only spoke to her / Photo: Profimedia
He was in trouble because of his origin
« Until I was six, I thought I was living in Hungary. Then I realized in Bronx that I wasn’t. They were beaten many times because I was different because I was Hungarian« He remembered. After dismantling the army and then becoming a filmmaker, he changed his name to Tony Curtis in honor of Mihály Kertész (Michael Curtiz).
Hollywood’s heartbreak
He moved to Los Angeles in 1948, and the Universal Film Studio saw a fantasy because of his talent and his appearance. The trapezoid (1956) and the handcuffed (1958) brought him a breakthrough, and became a star immediately. Women are crazy for what they used.
He got married six times
She couldn’t stand a woman for a long time: her first wife Janet Leigh (1951-1962), second, Christine Kaufmann (1963-1967), third Leslie Allen (1968-1982), fourth Andrea Savio (1984-1992), Fifth Lisa Deutsch (1993-1994) The sixth was Jill Vandenberg (1998-2010). A total of six children were born, the best known of them, Jamie Lee, also film star, who received an Oscar for two years.
Drooping lifestyle
He also devoured the women under his marriages: Petra Scharach was a lover, but Marilyn Monroe was in bed when she was 1959 who played hot. Millions of men envied the handsome actor, who did not conceal that he was involved in orgias and often alternated with his partners: « I tried everything in bed, I was young and insane. »
After the cinema became a television store
In the cinema, he reached almost everything he could, nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe. In the 1970s, he also conquered television viewers, mainly with the series « Two Spoons ».
Quit his colleagues from cigarette
As his father was a chain smokers, he hated the cigarette, so much so that he had left his two world star colleagues, Roger Moore and Michael Caine, from snacking.
Curtis also quenched Roger Moore, a series of two spoons in every juice, on smoking / photo: Getty Images
She loved the Hungarian cuisine’s masterpieces
He was also a lover of the gastronomy of « Old House ». The menu regularly had goulash, stuffed cabbage, cottage cheese and strudel, and he also liked domestic red wines.
Painting art was his hobby
In his old age, he abandoned filming and lived for painting, in which he was also talented, as his pictures were exhibited in several renowned galleries.
Has been returned several times
He went to us four times: first he came to Budapest in 1985, then in 1988 he went to his father’s birthplace, Mátészalka. He came to the first world meeting of Hungarian filmmakers in 1996 and dedicated the capital at his book launch in 2009. Tonight in the Pest Vigadó, the home profession commemorates it, September 25-27. and will be arranged in honor of The International Film Festival named after him is Mátészalka.
