Danny Wilde is a rough diamond, educated and molded in the back
slums of New York City, who escaped by enlisting in the U.S. Navy.
He later became a self made millionaire in the oil business.
Tony Curtis:
Curtis's screen debut came uncredited in the Criss Cross (1949)
playing a rumba dancer. Later, he cemented his reputation with
breakout performances such as in the role of the scheming press
agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) with Burt
Lancaster (who also starred in Criss Cross) and an Oscar-nominated
performance as a bigoted escaped convict chained to Sidney Poitier
in The Defiant Ones. He did both screen comedy and drama together
and became the most sought after star in Hollywood. Curtis
also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger
Moore in the TV series The Persuaders!. Later, he co-starred in
McCoy and Vega$. In the early 1960s, he was immortalized as "Stony
Curtis," a voice-over guest star on The Flintstones.