Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum. Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	23.481
Birthday	1927-07-06
Place of Birth	Merced, California, USA
Also Known As	Jeanette Helen Morrison,

The Manchurian Candidate

Psycho

Touch of Evil

The Fog

The Naked Spur

Rogue Cop

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

The Black Shield of Falworth

Holiday Affair

Bye Bye Birdie

Harper

Act of Violence

Scaramouche

The Horror Show

Hello Down There

The Red Danube

The Vikings

People, Hopes, Medals

Pete Kelly's Blues

My Sister Eileen

That Forsyte Woman

Houdini

Little Women

Psycho Tom

Mirror, Mirror

Angels in the Outfield

Night of the Lepus

Three on a Couch

Prince Valiant

Safari

24 Hour Psycho

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Pepe

It's a Big Country

Jet Pilot

One Is a Lonely Number

The American Nightmare

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

Grand Slam

The Doctor and the Girl

The Making of 'Psycho'

Kid Rodelo

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Who Was That Lady?

Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond

Hills of Home

Two Tickets to Broadway

An American Dream

The Story of Lassie

If Winter Comes

Boardwalk

Wives and Lovers

Honeymoon with a Stranger

The Monk

The Deadly Dream

Strictly Dishonorable

The Perfect Furlough

Fearless Fagan

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Walking My Baby Back Home

Bad Girls from Valley High

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border

The Spy in the Green Hat

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

House on Greenapple Road

Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool

Confidentially Connie

Words and Music

Just This Once

Rat Pack

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Telethon

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Night of 100 Stars II

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

Living It Up

The Psycho Legacy

Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

Murder at the World Series