His hysteria, sadness, intelligence, gentleness, sensuality, his smile, his eyes, moans, lips, expression, voice".
[4][5] Mann's suicidal novel Vergittertes Fenster (Barred Window), loosely based on the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and first published in the Netherlands in 1937, is dedicated to Curtiss.
Their romantic relationship lasted through the end of the year, but was never untroubled as Mann fought addiction and Curtiss socialized without him.
[7] Curtiss was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Mann's sexual behavior as part of their surveillance of German émigrées during World War II.
[8] In the 2001 Emmy-winning docudrama TV-miniseries Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman, Quinn Curtis is portrayed by Torsten Liebrecht.
The New York Times faulted it as "handicapped by lengthy and often fictitious reported conversations", too ready to believe von Stroheim's version of events, and burdened with trivia.