American Prince: A Memoir
by Tony Curtis
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780307408495
ISBN: 0307408493
Label: Harmony
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Publisher: Harmony
Release Date: 2008-10-14
Studio: Harmony
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Summary: The product is great; everything I expected
Comment: I enjoyed the book. The seller sent a pristine product! I am enjoying reading it! The book came on time! Thank you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yadda, yadda
Comment: Just what was Tony Curtis' problem? He makes Sweet Smell of Success, Trapeze and Some Like it Hot then spends the next ten years or so in mediocre sex comedies. Then he makes The Boston Strangler, a stunning performance in an excellent film, then spends the next ten years making even worse sex comedies, and drifting into TV. Then, more or less, showbiz oblivion. There are no answers to be found here. He admits to money worries, woman trouble and substance abuse, but we never get a handle on why things went so badly career-wise. This is not a gripping read. There are some good stories but we've heard a lot of them before. There's a lot left out - neither McCoy nor Vegas, two TV series in which he starred get mentioned, nor does the novel he published in the seventies (maybe he never read it, let alone wrote it). Like the man's life, it seems, the book drifts. I'm happy that Tony is now securely married, living in Vegas and enjoying coming to the end of his life. I enjoyed coming to the end of his life story.
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Summary: Pulls No Punches...About how wonderful he is
Comment: I am an avid classic movie fan and as such, I always enjoy a biography - especially an autobiography - of one of the celebrities from this glorious time in movie history. I've seen many Tony Curtis films and will always continue to do so. In my opinion, however, I will stick to enjoying Tony in front of the camera and not behind the desk with pen in hand. As always, I do love to read about all the other celebrities from Hollywood history that are inevitably featured in any biography of the time's celebrities so the book was not a total loss. But I came away from it with a none too favorable view of Tony Curtis himself. Every single time he mentions a woman he was with it's prefaced with "what a beautiful woman" "what curves" "what a figure", etc... as if it's the only way we will respect him or he will respect himself for having had her in his life. He also brings up things that are completely irrelevant to the story at hand simply to replay a favorable compliment he continually received from someone. I'm not sure I would want to take the time to count all the references to his beauty and success with women that appear throughout. It would simply take far too much time. And please understand, there is a way to relate truth without sounding like a self serving cad. TC seems about as deep as a puddle where this memoir is concerned. Stick to acting, Tony, I'd rather hang on to my belief that you were and are a debonaire movie great that I can't wait to watch on screen and enjoy. Because suave, gentle, modest, and humble on the page - you are NOT.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A "Princely" Entertainer
Comment: Tony Curtis can do no wrong....as an entertainer that is. All his movies are entertaining. His serious roles "SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS" to his comedy hits "SOME LIKE IT HOT" truly make him an underrated film star. Unlike other autobiographies, TONY CURTIS AMERICAN PRINCE, A Memoir gives the reader an inside look at Bernie Schwartz without the boring "I was born"....part and takes the reader onto the streets of New York with this tough little Jewish kid to the inside of Hollywood studios and the folks he met along the way. Curtis opens up his life with candor, his ups and downs. If you like TONY CURTIS you'll like the book. Curtis gives up with what he remembers and in some cases I wish he remembered more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Entertaining
Comment: As someone has also previously mentioned, I was never a big fan of Tony Curtis. This was especially true after he dumped Janet Leigh and his children for a teenaged Christine Kaufmann. That being said, Tony was undoubtedly an important figure in movies during the 50s & 60s, though his looks kept him in the limelight more than his acting ability.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book since, having grown up during this period, I could easily relate to the references made to different celebrities and productions. If it weren't for Tony's ever inflated ego occasionally popping up to justify some of his indiscretions I would have given this 5 stars. But hey! He wouldn't be Tony Curtis without it.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The product is great; everything I expected
Comment: I enjoyed the book. The seller sent a pristine product! I am enjoying reading it! The book came on time! Thank you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yadda, yadda
Comment: Just what was Tony Curtis' problem? He makes Sweet Smell of Success, Trapeze and Some Like it Hot then spends the next ten years or so in mediocre sex comedies. Then he makes The Boston Strangler, a stunning performance in an excellent film, then spends the next ten years making even worse sex comedies, and drifting into TV. Then, more or less, showbiz oblivion. There are no answers to be found here. He admits to money worries, woman trouble and substance abuse, but we never get a handle on why things went so badly career-wise. This is not a gripping read. There are some good stories but we've heard a lot of them before. There's a lot left out - neither McCoy nor Vegas, two TV series in which he starred get mentioned, nor does the novel he published in the seventies (maybe he never read it, let alone wrote it). Like the man's life, it seems, the book drifts. I'm happy that Tony is now securely married, living in Vegas and enjoying coming to the end of his life. I enjoyed coming to the end of his life story.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pulls No Punches...About how wonderful he is
Comment: I am an avid classic movie fan and as such, I always enjoy a biography - especially an autobiography - of one of the celebrities from this glorious time in movie history. I've seen many Tony Curtis films and will always continue to do so. In my opinion, however, I will stick to enjoying Tony in front of the camera and not behind the desk with pen in hand. As always, I do love to read about all the other celebrities from Hollywood history that are inevitably featured in any biography of the time's celebrities so the book was not a total loss. But I came away from it with a none too favorable view of Tony Curtis himself. Every single time he mentions a woman he was with it's prefaced with "what a beautiful woman" "what curves" "what a figure", etc... as if it's the only way we will respect him or he will respect himself for having had her in his life. He also brings up things that are completely irrelevant to the story at hand simply to replay a favorable compliment he continually received from someone. I'm not sure I would want to take the time to count all the references to his beauty and success with women that appear throughout. It would simply take far too much time. And please understand, there is a way to relate truth without sounding like a self serving cad. TC seems about as deep as a puddle where this memoir is concerned. Stick to acting, Tony, I'd rather hang on to my belief that you were and are a debonaire movie great that I can't wait to watch on screen and enjoy. Because suave, gentle, modest, and humble on the page - you are NOT.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A "Princely" Entertainer
Comment: Tony Curtis can do no wrong....as an entertainer that is. All his movies are entertaining. His serious roles "SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS" to his comedy hits "SOME LIKE IT HOT" truly make him an underrated film star. Unlike other autobiographies, TONY CURTIS AMERICAN PRINCE, A Memoir gives the reader an inside look at Bernie Schwartz without the boring "I was born"....part and takes the reader onto the streets of New York with this tough little Jewish kid to the inside of Hollywood studios and the folks he met along the way. Curtis opens up his life with candor, his ups and downs. If you like TONY CURTIS you'll like the book. Curtis gives up with what he remembers and in some cases I wish he remembered more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Entertaining
Comment: As someone has also previously mentioned, I was never a big fan of Tony Curtis. This was especially true after he dumped Janet Leigh and his children for a teenaged Christine Kaufmann. That being said, Tony was undoubtedly an important figure in movies during the 50s & 60s, though his looks kept him in the limelight more than his acting ability.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book since, having grown up during this period, I could easily relate to the references made to different celebrities and productions. If it weren't for Tony's ever inflated ego occasionally popping up to justify some of his indiscretions I would have given this 5 stars. But hey! He wouldn't be Tony Curtis without it.
“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.”
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame, women, and adulation—Elvis copied his look and the Beatles put him on their Sgt. Pepper album cover. But the Hollywood life of his dreams brought both invincible highs and debilitating lows. Now, in his captivating, no-holds-barred autobiography, Tony Curtis shares the agony and ecstasy of a private life in the public eye.
No simple tell-all, American Prince chronicles Hollywood during its heyday. Curtis revisits his immense body of work—including the unforgettable classics Houdini, Spartacus, and Some Like It Hot—and regales readers with stories of his associations with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, director Billy Wilder, and film industry heavyweight Lew Wasserman, as well as paramours Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe, among others.
As forthright as he is enthralling, Tony Curtis offers intimate glimpses into his succession of failed marriages (and the one that has endured), his destructive drug addiction, and his passion as a painter. Written with humor and grace, American Prince is a testament to the power of living the life of one’s dreams.
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