A great loss. Always loved him in Tarus Bulba with the bald guy. He was so handsome I considered changing teams (almost). He was also good as the indian soldier who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.

I was sad to hear this one, too. Kinda weird ... I always got his "public" persona mixed up with that of Eddie Fisher (and they die within days of each other?). I suppose that confusion came, later, in that they both had such noteworthy daughters, not to mention sticky divorces, etc. But, I tell ya! I never saw anybody play Cary Grant so hysterically and perfectly - except Cary himself, of course - as Mr. Curtis did in "Some Like It Hot". RIP.

Here's a link to one of his many obituaries this morning.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Curtis back in the 90s when he shot a scene from something (can't remember what) at a soundstage facility that I managed in Hollywood. I didn't pay a great deal of attention, as he was a heartthrob from my mother's generation, not mine. My boss, however ~ a 60-something Italian lady from Brooklyn ~ was completely agog. We had celebrities shooting on our lot pretty much every day, but after many years in the business, my boss was unimpressed and mostly kept to her office. But when she heard Tony Curtis was coming, she had her hair and nails done and got all dressed up and was pretty much waiting at the front door when he arrived. I was hovering in the background waiting to see if she was going to throw her panties at him. It was a big deal. I thought of her when I heard he'd died. She passed away several years ago, and I'm hoping she's got her hair and nails done up in heaven. She was probably waiting right inside the Pearly Gates when he arrived.

Tony will always make my heart beat a bit faster.

He made me laugh "In Some Like It Hot". He frightened me in "The Boston Strangler".

To learn he also painted and was an author just proves he wasn't content to sit still.

Bye, Tony. You are one of a kind.

I am a fan of comedy movies, and thought 'The Great Race' was hilarious. Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Keenan Wynn, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk and a host of others.

I just googled the release date of that movie- 1965! Geez, I am showing my age.

I took a friend of mine to see Tony last year at the Hay Festival where he was promoting his book 'An American Prince' which gives a fascinating insight into his life. He was a very amusing speaker, and talked at length about his career, his experiences with women and his painting. We had the chance to meet him afterwards at the book signing. My friend had always loved him since she was young, and had once met him when she was working at the expo in Sydney, and had shown him around the exhibition. She reminded him of this while he was signing her book. He turned to her, and with that inimitable twinkle asked, "And what did you name our child?" They don't make them like that any more!

I am in tears reading your lovely comments and Starfishtwo I want you to write my obituary.

Mountaingoat, let's not make that any time soon, shall we?

What about Curtis' powerhouse performance as a bigot in Stanley Kramer's "The Defiant Ones"? He is bugged by Sidney Poitier's singing at the movie's start, and almost to the end they never let up in their hate of each other. You could expect Richard Widmark to hate the guts out of Poitier in "No Way Out", Widmark was known for his crazy, psycho villians. But for Curtis, the romantic idol, to take on that role, speaks of his guts to push the boundaries of his talent!

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