![]() ![]() ![]() The prerequisites were good looks and ambition. Like the far grander MGM, or the Rank Organisation’s “charm school” in the UK, Universal had a policy of training promising talent. A casting director persuaded him otherwise, so he kept “Anthony” and added “Curtis”, anglicising a common Hungarian surname. He first chose Anthony Adverse as his professional name, inspired by the eponymous hero of a novel by Hervey Allen. He took the lead in a Greenwich Village revival of Golden Boy, written by Clifford Odets, and was spotted by a studio talent scout and offered a contract by Universal. He decided on acting (his father, Emanuel, had been an actor before becoming a tailor) and entered the Dramatic Workshop in New York. He emerged, aged 20, into a world of opportunities – the first being postwar government funding for GIs to train for a career. ![]()
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