He made his uncredited film debut in Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross (1949), as a gigolo who dances with Yvonne de Carlo, watched by the male lead, Burt Lancaster, who later played a significant part in Curtis's career.
Curtis relished being remembered for the Mackendrick movies above all, and for his quirky cameos (often uncredited) in numerous films – not least as the "voice" in Rosemary's Baby (1968).
While stars like Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood received the applause and record royalties for their work in musicals such as The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, it was Nixon's soprano who sang their songs uncredited, often after signing a contract never to disclose the ruse.
Then the comedian would be run out of town by an angry mob who had realised that this charlatan's stories were not necessarily true, his jokes were just meaningless wordplay, he did the same fake improvisations every night, and his personal anecdotes had been bought in wholesale from an uncredited writer on a £60 day rate.
Mr Blake has long had the glory for it; Fraser was its uncredited art director.Magnificently, the drum skin used on the cover for the album-title lettering is one of the first exhibits you see on entering Pace.
On Our Merry Way (1948), codirected with Leslie Fenton (John Huston and George Stevens were uncredited), had a cloying premise: Burgess Meredith played a reporter interviewing people about how a child has influenced their lives.
Much better was the musical Naughty Marietta (1935; uncredited), the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
Novelist and pioneering film critic James Agee worked with Huston on the adaptation of C.S. Forester's popular novel (as did the uncredited John Collier and Peter Viertel).
The Moon Is Down (1943) was a solid adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about Norway's resistance to Nazi invaders; the film also marked Natalie Wood's debut (though she was uncredited), and Pichel was widely recognized as discovering the actress.
He subsequently began appearing in more-mainstream fare, with uncredited roles in such movies as Woody Allen's Bananas and Klute (both 1971).
(Although George Cukor worked on the film, he was uncredited).
