Blog Assignement #19/Tony Curtis/John Wayne

     THE LIFE OF:
JOHN WAYNE AND TONY CURTIS

     Hello my fellow students.Today I will talk about two very known men.There are by the names of Tony Curtis and John Wayne.We definitely can not talk about two at the same time.So I will start off with John Wayne.
     Marion Mitchell Morrison(May 26, 1907-June 11, 1979)better known as his stage name John Wayne was an American film actor,director,and producer.He is very famous for his voice,walk,and height.In 1999,the American Film Institute named Wayne the 13th among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.He was born in Winterset,Iowa to Clyde Leonard Morrison and Mary Alberta Brown.Wayne was a chain smoker of cigarettes since young adulthood.He later was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to get his left lung and four ribs removed.Five years later,Wayne was declared cancer-free.Within a few years of his operation he began to chew on tobacco and smoke cigars until the day he died.
     Now let us talk about a whole different person,Tony Curtis.Tony Curtis(June 23,1925-September 29,2010)was also an American film actor.Suprisingly his career spanned for six whole decades.He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres,from light comedy to serious drama.