Tony Curtis
b. June 3, 1925

Tony Curtis (real name: Bernard Schwartz) was busted for marijuana possession at Heathrow airport in 1971, when he flew to London for an anti-tobacco appearance. (Michael Caine and Roger Moore credited him with helping them quit smoking cigarettes in the early 1970s.)

Curtis was brilliant as a swarmy PR flack who tries to smear a jazz guitarist as a pot-smoking commie in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), and as a slave/bard in Spartacus, by VIP Dalton Trumbo.

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