In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Tony Curtis is famous for his roles in films such as “Sweet Smell of Success”, “Some Like It Hot” and “The Boston Strangler”. He is also renowned for saying that kissing Marilyn Monroe was “like kissing Hitler”. In this autobiography, the reader can follow his fortunes from life in a New York street gang in the 1930s to the bath scene with Olivier in “Spartacus”, from marriage to Janet Leigh, to his descent into alcohol and cocaine addiction in the 1970s. It contains many previously unpublished film stills, production shots and personal snaps.

Review: I saw Tony Curtis in an interview with Pamela Stephenson in her profession as psychologist. I was spellbound by him and by his physique, as I remembered him as the handsome actor I’d watched in films and on TV years before. As with Rock Hudson the eyes never belie the person however old you get. I wanted to read his full story.It takes a bit of getting used to the style of writing, but what comes through is what an amazing and real person he was. For all his faults you just can’t help loving him just as we love our fallible friends and relations (and selves!). My daughter bought me the newer edition in hardback because I’d praised this so highly. Recommended reading.