Tony Curtis Articles

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards, who died this past Dec. 15 at the age of 88, will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies on Monday evening with the presentation of five of Edwards' best-known efforts: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1964), Victor Victoria (1982), and Operation Petticoat (1959). Apart from The Pink [...]

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot Tony Curtis, who died at his Las Vegas home at midnight Wednesday, Sept. 29/30, at the age of 85, was deservedly best known for his performance in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot (right, with Jack Lemmon), in which Curtis spends much of his screen time either as a woman or as Cary [...]

Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died of natural causes on Wednesday, April 22, at his home in Beverly Hills. He had suffered a stroke and a heart attack in February, and had been in poor health since. Like fellow British filmmaker Jack Cardiff, who also died on April 22, Annakin was 94. [...]

My Fair Lady (1964) and The Great Race (1965) will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28, respectively. Screenings will begin at 8 p.m. The programs are being presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council in conjunction with its "Dressed in Color: The Costumes exhibition," which includes [...]