A Slum Boy, a Hollywood Crown, the Accusation That Followed Tony Curtis

At ten his parents handed him to an orphanage; at sixty-five he struck every one of his children from a forty-million-dollar will. How did a kid from the Harlem slums become the star of Some Like It Hot? What did his affair with Marilyn Monroe cost him? And why, at the height of fame, did he put his own daughter onto the hardest substances there are? This is the documented account of Bernard Schwartz, the orphanage boy who reinvented himself as old Hollywood's greatest heartthrob — and left behind nothing but paintings, bitterness, and a family in pieces. Subscribe to Hollywood Eats Its Own for more untold stories of Hollywood's golden era. TIMECODES: 00:00 — Tony Curtis: The Orphan Behind the Heartthrob 00:48 — Bernard Schwartz: Handed to an Orphanage at Ten 07:24 — From the Slums to 1950s Hollywood 14:10 — Curtis and Marilyn Monroe on the Set of Some Like It Hot 15:15 — The Affair with Monroe and What It Cost Curtis 26:37 — Curtis Puts His Own Daughter on the Hardest Substances 28:58 — Six Marriages and a Fortune That Evaporated 33:08 — The Name Bernard Schwartz Hid Behind for a Lifetime 35:00 — Curtis Strikes Every Child from a Forty-Million-Dollar Will 36:25 — Tony Curtis's Final Years: Alone Among His Paintings 37:27 — The Broken Orphan Old Hollywood Turned Into a Star #TonyCurtis #MarilynMonroe #SomeLikeItHot #OldHollywoodHearthrob #OldHollywoodDarkSide