Remembering Tony Curtis

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Curtis will most likely be remembered for his performance in Some Like It Hot, the 1959 screwball Billy Wilder comedy in which he and Jack Lemmon play the jazz musicians who dress up as women to escape retribution after witnessing a gangland massacre. Curtis's character — sporting an accent famously reminiscent of Cary Grant's — ends up falling for the jazz vovalist played by bombshell Marilyn Monroe. The movie is frequently cited as one of the greatest of all time.

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