Well, PA, Cheetah was extremely intelligent. Died last year at 75, I believe.
Speaking of animals, folks, how about this one. Incidentally there really was a house of the rising sun, and it has been said that the actual location is in the French quarters in New Orleans.
Maurice Evans (actor)
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Born Maurice Herbert Evans
3 June 1901(1901-06-03)
Dorchester, Dorset, England
Died 12 March 1989 (aged 87)
Rottingdean, East Sussex, England
Occupation actor, producer
Years active 1926 - 1983
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
1961 Macbeth
Maurice Herbert Evans (June 3, 1901 - March 12, 1989) was an English actor who became a US citizen in 1941.
Evans was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, the son of Laura (née Turner) and Alfred Herbert Evans, who was an analytical chemist.[1] He first appeared on the stage in 1926 and joined the Old Vic Company in 1934, playing Hamlet, Richard II and Iago. His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet (1938) (the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I (1939), Macbeth (1941), and Malvolio in Twelfth Night (1942) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster. When World War II arrived, he was in charge of an Army Entertainment Section in the Central Pacific and played his famous "G.I. version" of Hamlet that cut the text of the play to make Prince Hamlet more decisive and appealing to the troops, an interpretation so popular that he took it to Broadway in 1945. He then shifted his attention to the works of Shaw, notably as John Tanner in Man and Superman and as King Magnus in The Apple Cart. He was also a successful Broadway producer of productions in which he did not appear, notably Teahouse of the August Moon.
American television audiences of the 1960s will remember Evans as Samantha's father, Maurice (the character was originally named Victor when he was introduced), on the sitcom Bewitched. He also played "The Puzzler" on Batman. Many younger viewers discovering these programmes in syndication are unaware of Evans' Shakespearean pedigree. His real-life insistence that his first name was pronounced the same as the name "Morris" was ironically at odds with his Bewitched character's contrasting stance that it be pronounced "Maw-REESE".
Evans had great impact onscreen as well, memorably in two 1968 films: as the evolved orangutan, Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes and as Rosemary's friend Hutch in the thriller Rosemary's Baby.
Evans died of cancer in East Sussex, England, aged 87.
Shakespearean legacy
As of 2006, Evans had appeared in more American television productions of Shakespeare than any other actor. For the famous television anthology, Hallmark Hall of Fame, he starred in the first feature-length (i.e., longer than an hour) dramatizations of the plays to ever be presented on American television - Hamlet, Macbeth (twice - both times with Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth and winning Evans an Emmy Award for the latter), Richard II, Twelfth Night (as Malvolio), The Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio, opposite Lilli Palmer as Katherine), and The Tempest (as Prospero). This last featured an all-star cast that included Lee Remick as Miranda, Roddy McDowall as Ariel, and Richard Burton as Caliban.
In bringing Shakespeare to television, he was a true pioneer. Evans also brought his Shakespeare productions to Broadway many times, playing Hamlet on the Great White Way in 4 separate productions for a grand total of 283 performances, a Broadway record that is not likely to be broken.
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Ellen Corby
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Born Ellen Hansen
June 3, 1911(1911-06-03)
Racine, Wisconsin
Died April 14, 1999 (aged 87)
Woodland Hills, California
Spouse(s) Francis Corby (1934-1944)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
1973 The Waltons
1975 The Waltons
1976 The Waltons
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1948 I Remember Mama
Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
1974 The Waltons
Other Awards
Golden Boot
1989
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) was an American Academy Award-nominated actor. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Walton" on the television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards.
Biography
Early life
Corby was born Ellen Hansen in Racine, Wisconsin, the daughter of Danish parents. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932 where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood that same year and got a job as a script girl at RKO Studios and Hal Roach Studios, where she frequently worked on the Our Gang Comedies, next to her husband, cinematographer Francis Corby. She held that position for the next twelve years and took acting lessons on the side.
Career
Corby began her career as a writer, working on the Paramount Western Twilight on the Trail and 1947's Hoppy's Holiday. She landed her first acting job in 1945, playing a maid in RKO's Cornered.
In 1948 she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress playing a lovelorn aunt in I Remember Mama (1948). Over the next four decades, she worked steadily in both film and television, often playing maids, secretaries, waitresses or gossips. She was a favorite in western films (including Shane, 1953) and had a recurring role as "Henrietta Porter" in the western television series Trackdown (1957 - 1959). Other television appearances included Wagon Train, The Rifleman, I Love Lucy, The Virginian, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Get Smart, " Beverly Hillbillies" and The Andy Griffith Show.
Her most famous role came on CBS in 1971 when she was cast as "Grandma Esther Walton" on the made-for-TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which served as the pilot for The Waltons. Corby would go on to resume the role on The Waltons, which became a weekly series from 1972-1981, and resulted in several sequel films. For her work in The Waltons, she won her three Emmy Awards and three more nominations as Best Supporting Actress. She left the show early in 1977, due to a massive stroke she suffered, which impaired her speech. She did come back at the beginning of the 1978 season, and had limited roles, but was forced out of the show for good in 1979.
Private life
Corby was married to Francis Corby from 1934 until his death in 1944; they had no children. She was an early practitioner and advocate of the Transcendental Meditation Program, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and appeared with the Maharishi on The Merv Griffin Show in the mid '70s.
She suffered a serious stroke in 1977 but recovered and went on to appear in several television films based on The Waltons. Her stroke was written into the show, with Grandma Walton also suffering a stroke, and struggling to regain her speech. Her last appearance was in A Walton Easter (1997).
She died at the age of 87 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 08:18 am
Paulette Goddard
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Born Marion Pauline Levy
June 3, 1910(1910-06-03)
Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, U.S.
Died April 23, 1990 (aged 79)
Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Years active 1929 - 1972
Spouse(s) Erich Maria Remarque (1958-1970)
Burgess Meredith
(1944-1950)
Charles Chaplin
(1936-1942)
Edgar James
(1927-1931)
Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990)[1] was an Oscar-nominated American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, although she never had any children.
Early life
Paulette Goddard was born Marion Pauline Levy. She was an only child, born in Whitestone Landing, Queens, Long Island. Her father, Joseph Russell Levy, was Jewish, and her mother, Alta Mae Goddard, was Episcopalian.[2] Her parents divorced while she was young, and she was raised by her mother. Her father virtually vanished from her life, only later to resurface in the 1940s after she became a star. At first, their relationship seemed genial, as she used to take him to her film premieres, but then he sued her over a magazine article that claimed he abandoned her when she was young. They were never to reconcile and upon his death, he left her just one dollar in his will. Goddard offered to pay for his funeral expenses. She and her mother struggled those early years, with her uncle, Charles Goddard (her mother's brother) lending a hand.
Charles Goddard helped his niece find jobs as a fashion model, and with the Ziegfeld Follies as one of the heavily-decorated Ziegfeld Girls from 1924 to 1928. She attended Washington Irving High School in Manhattan at the same time as Claire Trevor.
Career
Her stage debut was in the Ziegfeld revue No Foolin in 1926. The next year she made her stage acting debut in The Unconquerable Male. She also changed her first name to Paulette and took her mother's maiden name (which also happened to be her favorite uncle Charles' last name) as her own last name. She married an older, wealthy businessman, lumber tycoon Edgar James, in 1926 or 1927 and moved to North Carolina to be a socialite, but divorced him in 1930 and received a huge divorce settlement.
Goddard in Dramatic School (1938)In 1929 she came to Hollywood with her mother after signing a contract with Hal Roach Studios, and appeared in small parts of several films over the next few years, starting with Laurel & Hardy shorts.
At Samuel Goldwyn Productions, she also joined other such future notables as Betty Grable, Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, and Jane Wyman as "Goldwyn Girls" with Eddie Cantor in films such as The Kid from Spain, Roman Scandals and Kid Millions.
In 1932, she met Charlie Chaplin and began an eight-year personal and cinematic relationship with him. Chaplin bought Goddard's contract from Roach Studios and cast her as a street urchin opposite his Tramp character in the 1936 film Modern Times, which made Goddard a star. During this time she lived with Chaplin in his Beverly Hills home.[3]
Their actual marital status was and has remained a source of controversy and speculation. During most of their time together, both refused to comment on the matter. At the premier of The Great Dictator in 1940, Chaplin first introduced Goddard as his wife. The couple split amicably soon afterward, and Goddard allegedly obtained a divorce in Mexico in 1942, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement.[3] For years afterward, Chaplin stated that they were married in China in 1936, but to private associates and family, he claimed they were never legally married, except in common law.
Goddard began gaining star status after appearing in The Young in Heart (1938), Dramatic School (1938), and a supporting role in The Women (1939) which starred Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell.
During filming of The Women, Goddard was considered as a finalist for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, but after many auditions and a Technicolor screen test, lost the part to Vivien Leigh. It has been suggested that questions regarding her marital status with Chaplin, in that era of morals clauses, may have cost her the role.[3]
Nonetheless, in 1939, Goddard signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and her next film The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors.
Goddard starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, and then was Fred Astaire's leading lady in the musical Second Chorus (1940), where she met Burgess Meredith. One of her best-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (1943) in which she sang a comic number "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with contemporary sex symbols Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake.
She received her only Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, in 1944 for So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Her most successful film was Kitty (1945), where she played the title role. In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), she starred opposite Meredith, by then her husband.
Her career faded in the late 1940s. In 1947 she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda films, being accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Churchill, niece of Sir Winston and future wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Her last starring roles were the English production A Stranger Came Home (known as The Unholy Four in the USA), and Charge of the Lancers in 1954. She also acted in summer stock and on television, including in the 1955 television remake of The Women, playing a different character than she played in the 1939 feature film. In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference, but that turned out to be her last feature film. Her last acting role was in The Snoop Sisters (1972) for television.
Later life
Goddard was married to actor Burgess Meredith from 1944 to 1949. She suffered a miscarriage while married to him. She had no children. In 1958 she married the author Erich Maria Remarque. They remained married until his death in 1970.
Goddard was treated for breast cancer, apparently successfully, although the surgery was very invasive and the doctor had to remove several ribs. She later settled in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland, where she died a few months before her 80th birthday, following a short battle with emphysema. She is buried in Ronco cemetery, next to Remarque and her mother.
In her will, she left US$20 million to New York University (NYU), in recognition of her friendship with the Indiana-born politician and former NYU President John Brademas. Goddard Hall, an NYU freshman residence hall on Washington Square, is named in her honor.
There is much inconsistency among published sources regarding Goddard's birth year, largely due the documents recording her death incorrectly reporting a birth year of 1905. However, U.S. Census documents dated April 15, 1910, show her parents living in Manhattan and childless. January 1, 1920 Census documents show Pauline G. Levy, age 9, living with her parents in Kansas City, Missouri.[citation needed]
Fictional portrayals
She was portrayed by Diane Lane in the 1992 film Chaplin.
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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 08:20 am
Leo Gorcey
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Born June 3, 1917(1917-06-03)
New York City, U.S.
Died June 2, 1969 (aged 51)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 - June 2, 1969) was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Leo Gorcey was the shortest and the oldest of the original gang.
Early years
In 1917, 16-year-old Josephine Condon?-already a mother at 14?-gave birth to her second son, Leo, in New York City. Josephine and her 31-year-old husband Bernard Gorcey were vaudeville actors and both were a little under five feet tall. Leo would eventually reach 5' 6". Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo was the filmic prototype of the young punk. In 1921, his younger (and most recognized) brother, David Gorcey, was born.
Film career
In the 1930s, Leo's father became estranged from the family while working in theater and film. When he returned in 1935, he and David persuaded Leo to try out for a small part in the play Dead End. Having just lost his job as a plumber's apprentice and seeing his father's relative success, Leo decided to give acting a try. Leo and David were cast as two members of the Second Avenue Gang, with limited stage time. Charles Duncan, who was originally cast as Spit, left the play, and Leo, his understudy, was promoted. Gorcey created a quarrelsome guttersnipe whose greatest joy was in making trouble.
In 1937, Samuel Goldwyn made the popular play into a movie of the same name, and transported the six boys to Hollywood. Gorcey became one of the busiest actors in Hollywood for the next 20 years.
In the Bowery Boys movies, Leo's father Bernard Gorcey played Louie Dumbrowski, the diminutive sweet shop owner from whom the boys conned banana splits and financial loans. Leo's character "Slip" was famed for his malaprops (always delivered in a Brooklyn accent, such as "a clever seduction" for "a clever deduction," "I depreciate it!" ("I appreciate it!"), and "I regurgitate" ("I reiterate"). In the movie Jungle Gents, in which the Bowery Boys went to Africa, Huntz Hall lost the map and substituted a newspaper ad for lingerie. When Slip saw it, he said, "This ain't a map--it's an ad for ladies' griddles!' [ girdles ]
In 1939, Gorcey married 17-year-old dancer Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his Monogram movies. They divorced in 1944, after which Kay went on to become the second wife of Groucho Marx. In 1949, Gorcey married Amelita Ward, with whom he had worked in Clancy Street Boys and Smugglers Cove. She gave birth to Leo Gorcey Jr. during their marriage.
In 1955, his father was killed in an automobile accident. Leo turned to the bottle for solace and lost a great deal of weight. When he trashed a movie set in an intoxicated rage, the studio refused to give him the pay raise he demanded, so he quit the Bowery Boys and was replaced in the last seven movies by Stanley Clements. Leo's brother David remained with the series until it lapsed in late 1957.
Life after acting
In 1967, Leo Gorcey published his autobiography entitled An Original Dead End Kid Presents: Dead End Yells, Wedding Bells, Cockle Shells, and Dizzy Spells. The original publication (limited to about 1000 hardcover copies) is extremely rare and can be seen selling for as much as $300, but the book was recently reprinted. In 2003, Leo Gorcey, Jr. published his own book about his father, entitled Me and the Dead End Kid.
Gorcey was removed from the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album after his agent demanded a payment of $400.
Leo Gorcey died from liver failure on June 2, 1969 at the age of 51, one day before his 52nd birthday. He is buried at Molinos Cemetery in Los Molinos, California.
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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 08:23 am
Jimmy Rogers
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Born June 3, 1924(1924-06-03)
Origin Ruleville, Mississippi, United States
Died December 19, 1997 (aged 73)
Genre(s) Chicago Blues
Instrument(s) singer, guitarist and harmonica player
Jimmy Rogers (3 June 1924 - 19 December 1997) was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.
Career
Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, and was raised in Memphis. He adapted the professional surname "Rogers" from his stepfather's last name. Rogers learned the harmonica alongside his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager took up the guitar and played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois (where he played with Robert Lockwood, Jr., among others), before moving to Chicago in the mid 1940s.[citation needed] By 1946 he had recorded his first record as a harmonica player and singer for the local Harlem record label (not to be confused with the New York based label of the same name), although his name was not included on the label ?- the record was issued under the names "Memphis Slim and his Houserockers".
Rogers joined Muddy Waters the next year, with whom he helped shape the sound of the nascent Chicago Blues style. Although he had several successful releases of his own on Chess Records beginning in 1950 with "That's Alright", he stayed with Waters' until leaving his band for a solo career in 1954. In the mid 1950s he enjoyed several successful record releases on the Chess label, most notably "Walking By Myself", but as the 1950s drew to a close and interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from the music industry. In the early 1960s he worked as a member of Howling Wolf's band, before finally withdrawing from the music business altogether for almost a decade. He worked as a cab driver and owned a clothing store, until his store was burned in the Chicago riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. He gradually began performing in public again, and in 1971 when fashions made him a reasonable draw in Europe, Rogers began occasionally touring and recording again, including a 1977 reunion session with his old bandleader Waters. By 1982, Rogers was again a full-time solo artist.
In 1995 Rogers was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
He continued touring and recording albums until his death in 1997, in Chicago. He was survived by his son, James D. Lane, who is also a guitarist and a record producer and recording engineer for Blue Heaven Studios and the APO Records label.
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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 08:26 am
Tony Curtis
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Born Bernard Schwartz
June 3, 1925 (1925-06-03) (age 83)
New York City, New York
Years active 1948 - present
Spouse(s) Janet Leigh (1951-1962)
Christine Kaufmann (1963-1967)
Leslie Allen (1968-1982)
Lisa Deutsch (1993-1994)
Jill Vandenberg Curtis (1998-)
Tony Curtis (born June 3, 1925) is an American film actor. He is best known for light comic roles, especially his musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (1959) with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Over the years he has also assayed more serious dramatic roles, such as his escaped convict in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Since 1949, he has appeared in more than 100 films and has also made frequent television appearances.
Early life
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, in the Bronx, New York, in 1925, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrant parents (from Mátészalka, Szatmár, Hungary) Emanuel and Helen Schwartz. His father was a tailor who had left his home country to find a new life in the United States. In the early days the family lived in the back of his father's shop, parents in one corner and Curtis and his brothers Julius and Robert in another. Curtis has said of his mother, "When I was a child Mom beat me up and was very aggressive and antagonistic." Mrs. Schwartz was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness which also affected his brother Robert and led to his institutionalization. When Curtis was eight, he and his younger brother Julius were placed in an orphanage for a month because their parents could not afford to feed them. When Curtis was 12, his brother Julius was hit by a truck and died. It fell to Curtis to identify the body. Curtis retains his brother's cap and school books because, he says, "That's all that's left of him."[cite this quote]
Between 1942 and 1945 Curtis served in the United States Navy aboard the submarine tender, the USS Proteus. On September 2, 1945, he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from 300 yards (274 m) away.[1] After his military service, Curtis studied acting in New York alongside Elaine Stritch, Walter Matthau and Rod Steiger. He was "discovered" by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick because, as he says, "I was the handsomest of the boys." Arriving in Hollywood in 1948 at 23, he was placed under contract at Universal Pictures and changed his name to Tony Curtis. Although the studio taught him fencing and riding, Curtis admits he was only interested in girls and money.
Career
Curtis's screen debut came uncredited in the Criss Cross playing a rumba dancer. Later, he cemented his reputation with breakout performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster (who also starred in Criss Cross) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted escaped convict chained to Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.
He was so popular during the 1950s as a screen hunk that Elvis Presley copied his on-screen ducktail hairstyle.[2]
Curtis also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders!. Later, he co-starred in McCoy and Vega$. In the early 1960s, he was immortalized as "Stony Curtis," a voice-over guest star on The Flintstones.
Throughout his life, Curtis has enjoyed painting, and since the early 1980s, has painted as a second career. His work commands more than £25,000 a canvas now and he now focuses on painting rather than movies. "I still make movies but I'm not that interested in them any more. But I paint all the time." In 2007, his painting The Red Table was on display in the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan.
Curtis has spoken in the past of his disappointment at never being awarded an Oscar. "My profession has never recognized me sufficiently for my work."[cite this quote] But in March 2006, Curtis did receive the Sony Ericsson Empire Lifetime Achievement Award. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) from France in 1995.
Personal life
Tony Curtis has been married five times. His first (and most famous) wife was the actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004), to whom he was married for 11 years (June 4, 1951-1962), and with whom he fathered actresses Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis. "For a while, we were Hollywood's golden couple," he says. "I was very dedicated and devoted to Janet and on top of my trade, but in her eyes that goldenness started to wear off. I realized that whatever I was, I wasn't enough for Janet. That hurt me a lot and broke my heart."[cite this quote] It was Leigh's third marriage. Curtis, who admits to cheating on her throughout their marriage, left Leigh in 1962 for Christine Kaufmann, the 17-year-old German co-star of his latest film, Taras Bulba. Leigh was granted a quick divorce and later that year married stockbroker Robert Brandt in Las Vegas.[citation needed]
Curtis has also been married to:
Jill Vandenberg Curtis (November 6, 1998?-)
Lisa Deutsch (February 28, 1993-1994); divorced
Leslie Allen (April 20, 1968-1982); divorced, two children
Christine Kaufmann (February 8, 1963-1967); divorced, two children
Curtis' handprints at the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.His son, Nicholas (with Leslie Allen), died of a heroin overdose on July 2, 1994, at the age of 23. Of this, Curtis has said, "As a father you don't recover from that. There isn't a moment at night that I don't remember him."[cite this quote]
In 2002, Curtis purportedly told a British gay magazine attitude, "I was 22 when I arrived in Hollywood in 1948. I had more action than Mount Vesuvius; men, women, animals! I loved it too. I participated where I wanted to and didn't where I didn't. I've always been open about it."[3]
Curtis states that he had a brief relationship with Marilyn Monroe in 1949, which had to end due to their different work commitments.[4]
His current wife is 42 years his junior. They met in a restaurant in 1993 and married in 1998. "The age gap doesn't bother us. We laugh a lot. My body is functioning and everything is good. She's the sexiest woman I've ever known. We don't think about time. I don't use Viagra either. There are 50 ways to please your lover."[cite this quote]
Curtis nearly died when he contracted pneumonia in December 2006 and was in a coma for several days. He now uses a wheelchair and can only walk short distances.[5]
In 2004, he was inducted into the UNLV Hall of Fame. [6] A street is named after him at The Revere at Anthem development in Henderson, Nevada.
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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 08:28 am
A lecture about English
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
