Is Tony Curtis half Czechoslovakian?
Tony Curtis was born as Bernard Schwartz in The Bronx, NY, on 3 June 1925. He adopted the name Tony Curtis in 1948. In his 2008 autobiography, he said his mother was born “between Hungary and Czechoslovakia.” In two TV interviews in connection with the publication of the autobiography he said she was born “in Czechoslovakia,” and that his ancestry was Czechoslovakian and Jewish.
