Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: American Legends: The Life of Tony Curtis

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

"If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time." - Tony Curtis

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

At the height of Hollywood's golden age; of the 1940s through the early 60s, many of the industry's brightest stars could boast of unique stories describing how they were discovered. Their distinctiveness as on-screen personalities was an important part of that stardom, but one unlikely actor, a mismatch of contrasts, dialects, looks, and personal behavior, was to become an icon of the age, revered and disdained, but in the end, fondly remembered by the movie industry and fan base. Tony Curtis was, in the beginning, considered by most of his colleagues as a hack actor, but in time, one who took it upon himself to develop into a true screen artist. At his height as a matinee idol, Curtis was blessed with piercing blue eyes and good looks, a physicality described as classically handsome. He was to set a new criteria in place for male beauty in his era, a feminized but rugged heroism, able to portray grisly scenes with a pretty boy appearance, then immediately turn cute and excel in light comedy. Off-screen, Curtis was one of Hollywood's most prodigious womanizers, with a predatory sexual magnetism that was both alluring and feared.

Members Reviews:

Good Rehash of a Hollywood Legend Who Deserved Oscar Nomnation

Length: 56 pages.

For a couple of reasons, this booklet is not up to the usually excellent editing attained by CRE.

At about 16 to 17 percent mark, a page or two is a copy of the previous page or two. Not a critical error, but a definite slip.

Otherwise, at times, the book slips into a mere rehash of his career with little real research.

Having said that, I still enjoyed reading about one of Hollywood's great actors who never truly got the acclaim he deserved professionally.

Five Stars

good writing