Tony Curtis
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Some Like It Hot
(1959)After witnessing a shooting, two Chicago musicians head south disguised as female jazz artists. Their cover seems perfect...until love comes along.

Houdini
(1953)Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world’s most captivating magician and escape artist.

The Defiant Ones
(1958)Two convicts bound together by an unbreakable iron chain escape a Southern work gang and must put aside their differences in order to evade capture.

The Rat Race
(1960)A saxophonist (Tony Curtis) tries to share an apartment platonically with a dancer (Debbie Reynolds) in New York.

Sex and the Single Girl
(1964)Tony Curtis star as the editor of a scandal magazine who will resort toanything to get an interview with the beautiful author of thebest-selling novel, Sex and the Single Girl.

The Black Shield of Falworth
(1954)In the reign of King Henry IV, Miles (Tony Curtis) is a peasant determined to save the throne and the Lady Anne (Janet Leigh) in an epic tale filled with jousts, jests and medieval heroics.

Taras Bulba
(1962)The stubborn son of a Cossack chieftain who has vowed to fight to the death to regain his lands from Polish invaders is torn between family and love.

Flesh and Fury
(1952)A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.
Don't Make Waves
(1967)"It's entertainment that fills up the screen like she fills out a bikini," the trailer for Don't Make Waves proclaimed. She is Sharon Tate, portraying a beach-loving, sky-diving beauty named Malibu. The entertainment filling up the screen is a gleeful sand-and-surf-and-sex satire based on Ira Wallach's Muscle Beach, set to a title tune by The Byrds and targeting SoCal's go-go beach culture and the high-living hillside denizens of its ocean-view enclaves. Tony Curtis, reteaming with director Andrew Mackendrick of Sweet Smell of Success, plays an eastern interloper who arrives with little and hits on ways to finagle his way into lots. Also making waves: Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes and bodybuilder David Draper.

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
(2012)Trapeze, Spartacus, Sweet Smell of Success, The Boston Strangler, Some Like It Hot. Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean, was one of the very first teen idols and one of the last real movie stars. From his difficult upbringing in the Bronx, where he was born Bernie Schwartz, to his unprecedented fame and infamous way with women, Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom presents Mr. Curtis's life in all its rags to riches glory. Interviews with Tony's family, friends and co-stars (Hugh Hefner, Harry Belafonte, Debbie Reynolds, Mamie Van Doren, Piper Laurie, Theresa Russell, Jill Curtis among others!) along with exclusive footage and film clips are given deeper meaning and clarity by the most honest and intimate interview the actor may have ever given. Here, in the definitive film about Tony Curtis, filmmaker Ian Ayres forms this incredible material into a revealing portrait of one of the greatest Hollywood celebrities of all time. Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom explores the man's rebellious demeanor, his struggle as a Jew in Hollywood, his difficult childhood, the brief love affair with Marilyn Monroe and his failed marriages to actresses Janet Leigh and Christine Kaufmann, his courageous stance to break the color barrier with The Defiant Ones (the film that earned him an Oscar Nomination), and his entire six-decade career. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star.

Sweet Smell of Success
(1957)An influential Broadway columnist recruits a publicist to break up his daughter’s romance with a jazz guitarist in an ugly game of power and survival.

The Great Race
(1965)Set in 1908, dastardly, black-garbed Professor Fate dares the world's greatest hero, The Great Leslie, to race 22,000 miles from New York to Paris.

Trapeze
(1956)Mike Ribble was a great trapeze artist before his accident. Now, he wants to teach the dangerous triple somersault to a brash, young protégé.

Operation Petticoat
(1959)A submarine captain and his supply officer are determined to get their dry-dock sub back into WWII action. However, a bevy of nurses comes aboard, causing hijinks in the hot pink sub.

The Vikings
(1958)When a former slave discovers he is the son of a ruthless Viking leader, he competes with his brother for the throne in northern England.

Boeing, Boeing
(1965)Adapted from the stage to the screen, Boeing Boeing follows the lives of American journalist Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) and his friend Robert Reed (Jerry Lewis) in Paris. Bernard is juggling romances with three different women who are stewardesses and have opposite schedules; a perfect situation for any bachelor. However, when Robert comes in for a visit and the airline carriers increase flight services to Paris the comedy ensues!

Kings Go Forth
(1958)In this riveting war-time drama that packs plenty of explosive excitement and fervent passion, Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis battle their own prejudices after learning the woman (Natalie Wood) they both love is not exactly who she appears to be.
The Third Girl from the Left
(1973)Kim Novak and Tony Curtis make their TV movie debuts in this poignant tale of shattered dreams from director Peter Medak (The Ruling Class). A chorus girl for 14 years, Gloria Joyce (Novak) is at the end of the line. She's just turned 36, her looks are starting to fade and the club where she works is going topless. So when her boyfriend of 13 years (Curtis) dodges the question of marriage, Gloria takes comfort in the arms of a 23-year-old delivery boy (Michael Brandon), the only one she feels understands her. So when her lover breaks in on their tryst and draws a line in the sand, Gloria must decide which way her future lies, in the past or in the present. Produced by Playboy Productions, The Third Girl from the Left aired on October 16, 1973, and was written by Oscar-nominated lyricist Dory Previn. It also featured two songs composed especially for the film: one sung by Previn herself, the other by Tony Curtis.

Insignificance
(1985)Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
(2008)Screen icon Tony Curtis and his wife allow a camera crew to chronicle their mission to save horses from being auctioned to overseas slaughterhouses.