One of Mr. Storch’s Navy good friends was actually a fellow seafarer called Bernard Schwartz, that came to be better understood as Tony Curtis and offered Mr. Storch functions in several of his films, featuring”40 Pounds of Trouble” (1962), “Sex and the Single Girl “(1964 )and “The Great Race”(1965). Mr. Curtis and also Mr. Storch teamed up again years later, in 2002, in a stage musical variation of”Some Like It Hot,”the 1959 Billy Wilder film that had actually starred Mr. Curtis, Jack Lemmon and also Marilyn Monroe. Mr. Curtis played not his authentic function, a musician on the operate coming from gangsters who participates in a band masqueraded as a girl, yet the millionaire Osgood Fielding; Mr. Storch participated in the band manager, Bienstock.That show, which toured the country, certainly never helped make Broadway, yet Mr. Storch had a half-dozen Broadway appeals to his credit report, beginning along with “The Littlest Revue,” a 1956 show that additionally starred Joel Grey.
