Mr Curtis, lived long and hard, falling prey to the easy access to the temptations of the Hollywood lifestyle - drugs, booze and babes. Nonetheless, Mr. Schwartz served his country honorable in wartime by enlisting in the US Navy, but, as with the A.G. of Connecticut, he was not ordered to a war zone during WWII. Nor did Mr. Curtis volunteer to be air dropped into Dien Bien Phu with GB.
Probably best remembered for his rollicking impersonation of Cary Grant in "Some Like It Hot", staring with Jack Lemmon, his greatest film by far was "The Vikings", in which he played the bastard son of Viking King Ragnar and after living as Ragnar's slave for 25 years, orders his hunting hawk to pluck out his older brother's eye, then at the film's climax, despite the earnest pleas of Janet Leigh, he stabs his bro to death, takes Janet as his bride and becomes the new Viking King. And never forget the Viking funeral - flaming arrows alite the barge floating out of the Bay, taking Kirk douglas to his eternal rest in Valhalla. They just don't make movies like that anymore.
Such a Hollywood Classic is "The Vikings", that an elite member, Big Al, purchased a DVD copy thereof, among a cornacopia of Rare Americana for $125.00 at the August Charity Outing. My understanding is that he has rented it out more than two dozen times already. Just saying...
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