Tony Curtis Died at 85.

Tony Curtis, a matinee idol and one of the biggest stars of Hollywood in the year 1950's and in the late 60's, has died at the age of 85 in his home at Las Vegas. the cause of his death was cardiac arrest.

Mr. Curtis, who appeared in more than 120 movies, was best-known for his roles as an amoral publicist in "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), a chain-gang escapee in "The Defiant Ones" (1958), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; a cross-dressing musician in "Some Like It Hot"(1959), and a rebellious slave in "Spartacus"(1960).

In 1958, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assocation named Mr. Curtis "the world's favorite movie actor." He was Hollywood royalty, married to a fellow movie star, Janet Leigh.

Mr. Curtis' looks won him female hearts both onscreen and off. The self-appointed "kissing coach" as an aspiring actor at Universal-International Pictures in the late '40s, he married five times. As he wrote in his 1993 autobiography, "One of the the few leading ladies I didn't have an affair with was Jack Lemmon", who played Mr. Curtis' fellow cross-dressing musician in "Some Like It Hot."