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I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

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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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Service
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Pacific
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Navy
Tender
Tenderness
Hoping

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It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
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The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
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