Hollywood Legend Tony Curtis Passes Away At 85

Hollywood Legend Tony Curtis Passes Away At 85 

Tony Curtis’s death from cardiac arrest was announced by his daughter Jamie Lee Curtis today [09.30.10] in Las Vegas.  The legendary star who’s real name was Bernard Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1925 to Hungarian Jewish Immigrants and spoke only Hungarian until he was 5 years old.  He went on to star in such classics as “Some Like It Hot” and “The Defiant Ones.”  Curtis was married 6 times and devoted his later years to painting, claiming he has lost interest in the cinema. 

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