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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
Actor
Film Actor
Painter
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
Anthony Curtis
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World
Bronx

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