Alan Curtis (American actor)
| Alan Curtis | |
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| Born | Harry Ueberroth July 24, 1909 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Died | February 2, 1953 (aged 43) New York City, New York, USA |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1936-1951 |
| Spouse | Priscilla Lawson (m.1937-1940; divorced) Ilona Massey (m.1941-1942; divorced) Sandy Crowell (m.?-?) Betty Dodero (m.1950-1951; divorced) |
Alan Curtis (July 24, 1909 - February 2, 1953) was an American film actor appearing in over 50 films.
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[edit] Early life and career
Born Harry Ueberroth in Chicago, he began his career as a model before becoming an actor, appearing in local newspaper ads. His looks did not go unnoticed in Hollywood. He began appearing in films in the late 1930s (including a Technicolor appearance in the Alice Faye-Don Ameche film Hollywood Cavalcade and a memorable role in High Sierra (1941). He is probably best known as one of the romantic leads in Abbott and Costello's first hit movie Buck Privates.
His chance for leading-man stardom came when he replaced the unwilling John Garfield in the 1943 production Flesh and Fantasy. Curtis played a ruthless killer opposite Gloria Jean. Unfortunately for both actors, the studio removed their performances from the final film. The footage was later expanded into a B-picture melodrama Destiny. The film failed to establish Curtis as a major-name star, but it did typecast him in hardbitten roles, like the man framed for murder in Phantom Lady (1944) and the detective Philo Vance.
He starred in over two dozen movies and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
[edit] Personal life
Alan Curtis was married three times; his wives included actresses Priscilla Lawson, Ilona Massey, and Betty Dodero, and also Alexandra Beryl "Sandy" Crowell.
[edit] Death
Curtis had a routine kidney operation on January 28, 1953, at Saint Clare's Hospital in New York City, New York. A few hours after the surgery, as he sipped some tea, he "died" for four minutes when his heart failed.[1] He was revived and seemed to be improving when he suddenly died five days later in, he was 43.[2] He is buried in the Ueberroth family plot in Evanston, Illinois.[citation needed]
[edit] Selected filmography
- The Great Awakening (1941)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Alan Curtis at the Internet Movie Database
- "Alan Curtis". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6634877. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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