Tony Curtis


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Photo Collections

Sex and the Single Girl - Publicity Stills
Sex and the Single Girl - Publicity Stills
Trapeze - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Trapeze (1956), starring Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, and Tony Curtis. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.
The Vikings - Movie Posters
The Vikings - Movie Posters
The Defiant Ones - Movie Posters
Here are a few original-release movie posters for Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones (1958), starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier.
Sweet Smell of Success - Movie Posters
Here are a few original-release American movie posters for Sweet Smell of Success (1957), starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.
The Rawhide Years - Movie Posters
Here are a few original movie posters from Universal Pictures' The Rawhide Years (1955), starring Tony Curtis and Colleen Miller.

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Movie Clip

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Go With The Globe The rousing New York opening credit sequence to Sweet Smell of Success, 1957, introducing Tony Curtis as press agent Sidney Falco, and indirectly, Burt Lancaster as columnist J.J. Hunsecker, directed by Alexander MacKendrick.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Match Me, Sidney Calling from the lobby at 21 Club, press agent Sidney (Tony Curtis) begs monster columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster, his first scene) for an audience at his table, joining a senator, his consort and an agent (William Forrest, Autumn Russel, Jay Adler), in Sweet Smell Of Success, 1957, from Ernest Lehman's novella and screenplay co-written with Clifford Odets.
Criss Cross (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He Tries To Work It Out The bit-player cast as the dance partner of Anna (Yvonne De Carlo) is Tony Curtis, duly mesmerized as she digs into “Jungle Fantasy” by Puerto Rican musician Esy Morales and his band, Burt Lancaster as her ex-husband Steve narrating the back-story, in Robert Siodmak’s Criss Cross, 1949.
Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Both Snails And Oysters The long-excised bath scene, with dialogue restored in 1991, Tony Curtis doing his own voice and Anthony Hopkins the deceased Laurence Olivier, as the dignified but maybe-decadent general Crassus illuminates his handsome new slave Antoninus, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.
Defiant Ones, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Maker Or A Taker Escaped, handcuffed and incompatible convicts Joker (Tony Curtis) and Cullen (Sidney Poitier) finally reach the work camp where the latter was once incarcerated, slowly warming to each other on their first night in flight, in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones, 1958.

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