Tony Curtis

2011 film My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Monroe. In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar territory with the wildly popular comedy Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. She played Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, a singer who hopes to marry a millionaire in the film, in which Lemmon and Curtis pretend to be women.…

or even B. 3. Some Like It Hot (1959) Marilyn Monroe is often remembered only for her looks, but she was also a great comedy actress. In 1959, director Billy Wilder created this funny movie with Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. In the movie, two musicians, played by Lemmon and Curtis, flee after witnessing a horrific massacre. In order to disguise, they decide to dress up as female. Unfortunately, one of them falls for the seductive singer Sugar (Monroe) and chaos ensues. 4. This Is…

Kennedy Boulevard Bridge which is linked to the MacDill Park, Curtis Hixon and Waterfront Park, providing pedestrians and cyclists 1.8 miles of Riverwalk. In 2003, renewed emphasis was placed on accelerating the development of the waterfront to enhance the image of Tampa as a beautiful and unique destination. The goal was to create a Riverwalk with timeless appeal and memorable qualities that will draw people from both near and far. (Tony Mulkey). Over the past 2 decades, The…

Blackboard Jungle (1955), in which he depicted an understudy at an inward city school. His prosperity as an on-screen character achieved new statures when he scored his first Academy Award selection, for the 1958 wrongdoing show The Defiant Ones, with Tony Curtis, and the next year, Poitier lit up the screen as a main man in the musical Porgy and Bess, co-featuring with Dorothy Dandridge. Both this film and his amazing turn in the 1961 film adjustment of the play A Raisin in the Sun made Poitier…

The maker of some like it hot, what’s up doc, and bringing up baby created a film that was funny, romantic, and cheesy. The storyline in all these films is not realistic. They are for entertainment and comedy. Most of these movies have roughly the same plot line. It typically revolves around a man and a woman in some sort of complicated situation. At the end of the movie, they end up together. In the first movie Bringing Up Baby, they managed to accomplish their goals in some areas. It was a…

various dynamics that are pieced together for the creation of his character. Similar to a handy man, an actor utilizes his or her set of tools of the craft of Acting to accomplish the ultimate goal of the character. In the Sweet Smell of Success, Tony Curtis, who portrays Sidney Falco, utilizes his tools of presentational acting, obstacles, objective, given circumstances, environmental condition, and actions to successfully embody his character. In one of the earlier lectures, two types of…

Vincent Who? : The Murder of a Chinese-American Man, produced by Curtis Chin and Tony Lam sparked a lot of new thoughts in my mind when I first watched it. The oblivious nature of many Americans and even American students is kind of shameful to be honest. The opening scene of this film really proves this, the narrator askes various people on a college campus if they know who Vincent Chin was. No one knew and only one had a slight clue. The Vincent Chin case should be one that every American…

after Quint Asper who was Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. His mother, Connie Mchugh was a nurse and his father, Tony Tarantino was a musician. However, after his birth his mother and birth father separated and Connie remarried. At the age of two, he moved to Los Angeles, California with his mother and her new husband. Her new husband was named Curtis Zastoupil and he would take him to a lot of film screenings because of his interest in film. However his mother later on…

50 Cent’s Ambition Many people do not believe in destiny, however, even the most skeptic person must surely admit that everybody has a purpose. Our purpose is what drives and gives us the motivation to face life everybody. It is the burning desire that pushes man to be successful in all of his or her endeavors. However, we all have different personalities, backgrounds and experiences; these are the factors that push us to success therefore our achievements cannot be the same. This especially…

Why was Elvis Aaron Presley thought to be the King of Rock and Roll? Presley was thought to be the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ because of his ambition, talent, talking about his influences, which were both black and white, and his music. He influenced many of the singers of the current generation. He gave Rock and Roll a persona as well as created a serious tone for the future of music quality. He had formed from a small voice to a powerful artist who changed the genres of music. Elvis was the…