Actor Tony Curtis dies at Las Vegas-area home


September 30, 2010 at 8:51a.m.

Actor Tony Curtis dies at Las Vegas-area home

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tony Curtis, the Bronx tailor’s son who became a 1950s movie heartthrob and then a respected actor with such films as “Sweet Smell of Success,” “The Defiant Ones” and “Some Like It Hot,” has died. He was 85. The actor died about 9:25 p.m. PDT Wednesday at his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest, Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said Thursday