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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 5 PM PT
TONY CURTIS
with host TIM CARPENTER
Tony Curtis; Tim Carpenter; Tony’s wife, Jill
Tony Curtis came out of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim as an actor in dramatic and comic roles alike.
Mr. Curtis was one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age. He became a respected dramatic actor, earning an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in “The Defiant Ones,” a 1958 Stanley Kramer film. But he was equally adept in comedies, including the classic, “Some Like It Hot,” in 1959.
Curtis also had a second career as an artist beginning in the early 1960s. He cited Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Balthus as his major influences.
Tony Curtis passed away on September 9, 2010. We are fortunate that Tim Carpenter had interviewed him in May of that year. Their conversation was recorded live, in front of an adoring audience, at Fletcher Jones Auditorium at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Learn more about Tony Curtis here.
