1950s Heartthrob Tony Curtis Dies at 851950s Heartthrob Tony Curtis has died.
He was 85.
He passed away at his Las Vegas area house of a cardiac arrest.
He appeared in such movies as Sweet Smell of Success and Some Like It Hot. He earned an Oscar nod for 1958's The Defiant Ones.
His 1st wife was Psycho star Janet Leigh; actress Jamie Leigh Curtis is their daughter.
After retiring from film and battling drug and alcohol abuse, he turned to painting (some of his canvasses sold for as much as $20,000) later in his life.
"I am not ready to settle down like an elderly Jewish gentleman, sitting on a bench and leaning on a cane," he said at 60. "I have got a helluva lot of living to do."
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