Actor Tony Curtis portrays magician Harry Houdini in the 1953 film "Houdini." Curtis, the Bronx tailor's son who became a 1950s movie heartthrob and then a respected actor with such films as "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Defiant Ones" and "Some Like It Hot," died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest at the age of 85, according to the Clark County, Nev., coroner.
Tony Curtis, Hollywood Legend, Dies at 85
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