life experience a few years later when he enlisted in the Marines in 1942. He did everything from working as a crewman on a submarine to honing his future craft as an actor by performing as a sailor in a stage play at the Navy Signalman School in Illinois. In 1945, Curtis was honorably discharged from the navy and when he realized that the GI Bill would allow him to go to acting school without paying for it, Tony saw that his lifelong pipe-dream of being an actor might actually be achievable. __
