Janet Leigh
Born July 06, 1927 (Age: 98)
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Merced, California, USA
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
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as Self
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Age: 73
The American Nightmare
2000
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as Self
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Age: 73
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
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as Self
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Age: 72
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
2000
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as Herself
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Age: 72
No Image
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
1999
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as Self
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Age: 72
No Image
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999
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as Self
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Age: 71
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
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as Norma Watson
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Age: 71
No Image
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
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as Himself
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Age: 66
Psycho II
1983
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as Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 55
The Fog
1980
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as Kathy Williams
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Age: 52
Harper
1966
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as Susan Harper
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Age: 38
No Image
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965
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as Self
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Age: 38
Bye Bye Birdie
1963
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as Rosie DeLeon
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Age: 35
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
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as Eugenie Rose Chaney
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Age: 35
Psycho
1960
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as Marion Crane
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Age: 32
People, Hopes, Medals
1960
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as Self
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Age: 32
The Vikings
1958
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as Morgana
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Age: 30
Touch of Evil
1958
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as Susan 'Susie' Vargas
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Age: 30
No Image
Nightmare
1956
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as Janet
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Age: 28
My Sister Eileen
1955
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as Eileen Sherwood
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Age: 28
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1954
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as
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Age: 26
Prince Valiant
1954
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as Princess Aleta
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Age: 26