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CURTIS**, TONY and PARIS**, BARRY: : TONY CURTIS: the Autobiography.** [co-author (Tony Curtis) SIGNED copy.**]

LONDON.HEINEMANN,1994.

ISBN 0434161845.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,co-author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but co-author's handwritten,SIGNED,black ink signature without dedication,to ffe by Tony Curtis,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w+ colour,subject portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges crisp,bright and clean,contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,publisher's original black cloth bds with bright stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,headband and immaculate plain red eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,7-352pp [paginated] includes co-author foreword,acknowledgements,contents list/table,14 chapters,profuse contemporary,b/w photographs throughout the text and the book with 8pp block of similar photographs between pp192/3, filmography,photo credits and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.An uncommon SIGNED copy. Even Elvis wanted to be like Tony Curtis, but,for that matter,almost every man in the 50's and 60's wanted to be Tony Curtis - including Tony Curtis himself.What nobody knew was that,all the while,Bernie Schwartz of the Bronx was keeping just a step ahead of the crowd,trying to invent Tony Curtis for himself.From his boyhood in the depression-era New York streets - back when he was a fast-footed,quick-witted kid,the son of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants - through forty years as an eminent screen idol,Tony Cutris's story is a sceptic's trip through the Elysian fields of stardom. 'Tony Curtis: The Autobiography' pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw,uncensored street- honed New York bite.The scope of his memoirs includes: rooming with Marlon Brando in Hollywood in the late '40's: a glamorous marriage to Janet Leigh in 1951, and the extraordinary days during the first flush of his success: his co-billed star role in 'The Defiant Ones' with Sidney Poitier,the first time a black actor received such attention:his social involvement with Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack; his classically outrageous performance in Billy Wilder's 'Some Like it Hot'; the making of Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (including details of the legendary bath scene with Laurence Olivier); a fully detailed description of his descent into alcohol and cocaine addiction in the 1970's and 80's; and his therapeutic, ongoing work as a visual artist,drawing his inspiration from Matisse and Joseph Cornell. Tony Curtis met and worked with all the acting and directing icons of his day,and ths book is a candid and tantalising probe inside the classic years of the movie business - both the incredible decadence and the numbing,grinding hard work.Here, too,is the dark side of Hollywood glamour, as embodied by the sad stories of Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate - and Curtis's own scrapes with disaster.From swashbuckling films of the '40's to recent movies like Nicholas Roeg's 'Insignificance',Curtis's storybook career makes him the most penetrating,first-hand performer-authority on Hollywood that we have.Controversial, flip,shot through with a charming defiance and an off-the-wall sense of humour, 'Tony Curtis: The Autobiography' must be read by anyone in love with the movies and the truth behind the icons. Tony Curtis has appeared in over a hundred films,including 'The Defiant Ones' (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award),'Sweet Smell of Success', 'Some Like it Hot' and more recently (then 1994),the Martin Scorcese production, 'Naked in New York'. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author signature - without dedication.

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