Tony Curtis dies of cardiac arrest

Legendary Hollywood actor Tony Curtis, best known for his comedic turn as a cross-dressing musician in Some Like It Hot, has died at the age of 85.
A representative for Curtis' daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, confirmed his death to Entertainment Tonight, the television program said on its website. ABC News also reported the death.
The cause was said to be cardiac arrest.
The Bronx-born Curtis was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier, but he was best remembered as Marilyn Monroe's cross-dressing paramour in the 1959 Billy Wilder classic Some Like It Hot.
Curtis's life could have come straight from one of his Hollywood scripts: rising from the streets of the Bronx to become a matinee idol who boasted of sleeping with 1000 women.
He will be remembered as much for the off-screen dalliances as for acting performances that never perhaps won the critical acclaim and respect from his peers that he sought.

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