Everyone has their favorite Tony Curtis movie, whether it’s Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Boston Strangler with Henry Fonda, Trapeze with Burt Lancaster and Gina Lolabrigida, or The Great Race with Natalie Wood. After making 106 movies, it’s no surprise that this Hollywood legend has been honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards in Italy, France, Hungary, the UK and the US. He has also been knighted in France.

The oldest of three sons of Hungarian immigrants who came to the United States with literally nothing, Tony was a member of a street gang in the Bronx at age 11. After serving in the US Navy, he attended the City College of New York and the Dramatic Workshop in Greenwich Village, where he had his first taste of acting. Due to his extreme good looks, this American Dreamboat was immediately offered a contract with Universal Pictures and quickly became one of the biggest screen idols of all time. But unlike his mentor, Cary Grant, Curtis often played characters he created himself.

Now on his second career, Tony says he’s having a lot more fun expressing himself through his art than he ever thought possible. Painting has become a way of life.

“I’m so pleased to have the advantage of doing something that I really love,” he says. When he’s in his house overlooking the Las Vegas valley and spectacular views of the Strip, he now paints almost every day. “Sometimes I’m inspired by things from my past, while other days it might be whatever comes to mind at the time,” he goes on to say. “But it’s the colors that really move me to where the piece goes. I’ll start with one color, and put that color in all the right places, then move on to the next color almost like puzzle pieces. And I can see all the pieces fit perfectly on the canvas in my mind’s eye.

Tony’s glossy acrylic impressionist paintings on canvas have been compared favorably to those of Matisse. Assemblages of him, collages and boxes of him are in the private collections of Billy Wilder, Governor of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, Kathy Lee Gifford, Lew Wasserman, Frank Sinatra, Arsenio Hall, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

Tony Curtis originals can also be found on display at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, the Toronto Museum, the Hungarian National Museum, Harrod’s Department Store, Spago Restaurant, and the MGM-Mirage in Las Vegas.

Still an active and energetic man, Tony Curtis recently celebrated his 80th birthday with a special design in Vanity Fair magazine and an over-the-top celebration party, at the fabulous MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, attended by the rich and famous from all over the world. the world, including his parents’ native Hungary.

For more information on the art of Tony Curtis, call him at 702-736-1767 or visit:
http://www.TonyCurtis.com

This report was reprinted with the kind permission of Millionaire Magazine.

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