On Vacation: When Hollywood was Hollywood

Amid a celebrity shutdown, a look at how stars — and the studio machine that controlled their images — once spent summer

TONY CURTIS & JANET LEIGH, 1960 “They were products of the latter part of the studio era,” says film critic and historian Leonard Maltin. “The studio invented their names. He was Bernard Schwartz, and her name was…. Scandinavian. When you start out by being rechristened, I guess that indicates some degree of control. They were such a photogenic couple,…